Fifty years after the adoption of the Declaration on Permanent Sovereignty over Natural
Resources by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1962 this volume assesses
the evolution of the principle of permanent sovereignty over natural resources into a principle
of customary international law as well as related developments. International environmental and
human rights law leave unresolved questions regarding the limitations of this principle e.g.
extraterritorial and international influences such as the applicable criminal and tort law as
well as the extraterritorial and international promotion of good governance including
transparency obligations.
