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A comprehensive analysis of the content, scope, and function of due diligence across various areas of international law. Looking at current tendancies towards proceduralisation and more proactive risk management, it reveals the promises and limits of due diligence as a concept for enhancing accountability and compliance.

International law --- Reasonable care (Law) --- Philosophy. --- Adequate care (Law) --- Carelessness (Law) --- Due care (Law) --- Duty of care (Law) --- Diligence --- Negligence --- Torts --- Jurisprudence --- Natural law

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Due Diligence in International Law identifies due diligence as the missing link between state responsibility and international liability. Acknowledged in all legal fields, it ensures international peaceful cooperation and prevents significant transboundary harm, yet it has thus far not been comprehensively discussed in literature. The present volume fills this void. Kulesza identifies due diligence as a principle of international law and traces its evolution throughout centuries. The no-harm principle, key to identifying responsibility for transboundary harm, focal to international environmental law and applicable to e.g. combating terrorism, follows states’ obligation of due diligence in preventing foreign harm. This obligation, present in various treaty-based and customary regimes is argued to be a principle of international public law applicable to all obligations of conduct.

International obligations --- Government liability (International law) --- Reasonable care (Law) --- Adequate care (Law) --- Carelessness (Law) --- Due care (Law) --- Duty of care (Law) --- Diligence --- Negligence --- Torts --- International claims --- International law --- Sovereignty --- Claims --- International agreements --- Treaties --- Due diligence --- International obligations.