Charles B. Bourne: Scholar, Teacher, and Editor, Innovator in the Development of the International Law of Water Resources

The author traces the career of one of Canada’s leading international lawyers as a teacher of international law, as the founding editor and editor-in-chief of this Yearbook for thirty years, and as a scholar in the field of the international law of water resources. Bourne’s role in the development of the Helsinki Rules is recounted and hü fundamental difference with the work of the ILC over the competing principles of “equitable utilization” and “no appreciable harm” is analyzed.