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<br />N'., <br />C.,) .' <br />..;:-,. <br />Q <br /> <br />42 <br /> <br /> <br />THE AMElUCAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW <br /> <br />[Vol. 53 <br /> <br />agreement or adjudication or by a eombination of the two. '2 They are in <br />harmony with the formulations of learned societies working in this field <br />and the conclusions of the United States Department of State." <br />The decisions at the international level are too few to have caught up <br />with the wealth .of precedents in the practices of riparian states revealed <br />not only in their actions and in the official pronouncements of their repre- <br />sentatives, but also in the pattern developed in hundreds of water treaties, <br />The decisions being few, it seems appropriate to review in some detail <br />those principles which the Lake Lanoux Tribrtnal recognized in its opinion, <br />Significantly, the Tribunal refrained from academic distinctions be-, <br />tween the principles that are fully recognized as constituting existing in- <br />ternationallaw, those that are coming into recognition, and those that are <br />still aborning. The disputant states eschewed the same distinctions. <br />Many were nevertheless recognized by them in' negotiations over Lake <br />Lanoux and in the briefs ,before the TribunaL" These principles were <br /> <br />82 A bibliogr~phy on the legal aspects of the non-navigational uses of international <br />rivers appears in Principles. . . American" Committee 109-129, op. oit.- note 21 above. <br />The compreh~n8ive works on the law governing the uses of international rivers in- <br />clude: Smith, The Economic Uses of International Rivers (1931); Andrassy, tiLes rela- <br />tiODS internationales de voisinage,' J in 79 Hague Academy Recueil des Cours - 77-182 <br />(1951, II); Sovette, Legal Aspects of Hydro-Electric Development of Rivers and Lakes <br />of Common Interests (U.N, Doe. E/EOE/136, Geneva, 1952 i this work will be cited <br />as ECE Report); Berber, Die RechtsquelIen des Internationalen Wassernutzungsrechts <br />(Munich, 1955); Hartig, Internationale Wasserwirtschaft und Internationale.s Recht <br />(Vienna, 1955); Principles of Law Governing the Uses of International Rivera-Reso- <br />lution Adopted by the International Law Association at its Conference Held in August, <br />1956, at DubroVnik, Yugoslavia, together with Reports and Commentaries Submitted <br />to the Association (Wa,hington, D.C., 1957, Lib. Congo Cat. Card No, 57-10830; bere- <br />after cited as "Principles. . . Dubrovnik"); Andrassy, Utilisa~on des eaux interna- <br />tionales non-maritimes (en dehors de ]a navigation)" (Institut de Droit International, <br />Geneva, 1957); Principles of Law Governing the Uses of International Rivers and <br />Lakes-Resolution Adopted by the Inter~American Bar Association at its Tenth Con- <br />ference Held in November, 1957, at Buenos Aires, Argentina, together with Papers <br />Submitted to the Association (Washington, D.C., 1958; Lib. Congo Cat. Card No. <br />58-12112; hereafter cited as "Principles. . . Buenos Aires"); Dept. of State Memo- <br />randum, op. cU. note 20 above. <br />.ss A summary 'of the work of international bodies in the :field of international river <br />law, together with the texts of declarations, resolutiolls and conventions appears in Ap~ <br />pendix A of Principles . . . American Committee (op. cit. note 21 above) at 53 et aeq. <br />81 France and Spain devoted substantial parts of their briefs to an analysis of their <br />rights as co"riparians apart from the obligations arising from treaties. Their adherence <br />to a substantive rule of reason stands out despite their basic divergence over the neces- <br />sity of prior agreement under the circumstances of the case. The French Memoire, <br />in a chapter entitled "La Droit des Hens," at pp. 58-66, begins its analysis of eus~ <br />tomary international law by stating that the proposed diversion is in conformity with <br />the principles of international law apart from treaty, and remarks that a consideration <br />of international custom is n9t superfluous for the purposes of the ease. In _ order, to <br />identify the prinCiples of existing customary international river law, the Memoire con- <br />siders, article by article, the pertinent provisions of the Declaration of Madrid of 1911 <br />of the Institut de Droit International (see text in 24 Annuaire de I'Institut de Droit <br />Intsrnational 365 (1911) and in Principles. . . Ameriean Conunittee, op. cit. note 21 <br />above, at 54), and comments after each principle that tne French project conforms <br />