Bridge over Troubled Waters

Hélène Ruiz Fabri, Ph.D. (1989), is a Director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law and a Professor at the Sorbonne Law School. She is the General Editor of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro).Erik Franckx, Ph.D. (1989), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, is Research Professor at that university. He has published widely in field of international law, including as co-author of the leading textbook Law of the Sea in a Nutshell.Marco Benatar, is an Associate Legal Officer at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and formerly a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law.Tamar Meshel, S.J.D. (2018), is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. Her work on international water law has been most recently published in the Harvard International Law Journal and the Yearbook of International Environmental Law.

"Given the existing convergences in the development of the law of international watercourses and the law of the sea, it is somewhat surprising that no academic publication had yet attempted to examine and assess the relationshipbetween these two areas of international law in a comprehensive manner.This gap in the legal literature is now filled by the present treatise, viewed fromthe perspective of the principles and institutions of peaceful dispute settlement.It is a valuable and inspiring source of information and analysis for alllegal practitioners who are involved in inter-State dispute settlement, as wellas for State officials working in foreign ministries and embassies, and legalscholars in the fields of international water law, international law of the sea,and international dispute settlement. There is no doubt that this book makesa particularly important contribution to international water law, internationallaw of the sea, and international law of dispute settlement." -Alexander Proelss, in Ocean Yearbook 36, Brill | Nijhoff, 2022