ABSTRACT
For a number ofyears the International Law Commission (hereinafter the ILC) has been working on a draft convention on the international responsibility of States. It is thus proposed to codify - and obviously also « progressively to develop » - yet another branch of customary internationallaw, and one particularly ill-suited to such an operation. What indeed are the chances of codification of an anyway explosive matter at a time when States are intent on asserting their sovereignty as aggressively as ever ?
