Summary: | The subjects’ responsibility for violations of their obligations is incident to any legal
system. We intend to analyze in this article aspects of states’ responsibility, fundamental institution of
public international law, relating to its classification as a form of the legal liability and as a
fundamental principle of public international law, to the codification of international norms
emphasizing the activity of the International Law Commission, to the two theories of guilt and
liability based on risk, underlying legal nature of the international responsibility of states and the
unlawful act, generator of international responsibility. In preparing the paper we used as research
methods the analysis of the problems generated by the mentioned topic with reference to doctrinal
views expressed in treaties and specialized papers, solutions retained in international jurisprudence,
documentary research, interpretation of legal norms in the matter.
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