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37 Tex. Int'l L.J. 1 (2002)
Transboundary Jurisdiction and Watercourse Law: China, Kazakhstan, and the Irtysh

handle is hein.journals/tilj37 and id is 13 raw text is: Transboundary Jurisdiction and Watercourse Law: China, Kazakhstan, and the Irtysh ERIC W. SIEVERSt SUMMARY I. INTRODUCTION: THE FIFTH LARGEST RIVER IN THE WORLD ......................................... 2 II. SOVEREIGN KAZAKHSTAN ON THE EDGE OF CHINA'S TENTH FIVE-YEAR P LA N ............................................................................................................................. 3 A. Internationalizing Post-Soviet Politics ............................................................. 5 B. Bargaining in a Short Legal Shadow ............................................................... 7 III. WHAT IS TRANSBOUNDARY WATERCOURSE LAW? .................................................. 13 A . C ustom ary Law .............................................................................................. 14 1. Limited Territorial Sovereignty, Equitable Use, and Sustainable D evelopm ent .......................................................................................... . . 15 2. T he N otice R ule ....................................................................................... 17 3. The C onsultation R ule ............................................................................... 17 4. The Succession R ule ................................................................................ 17 5. The Community of Navigation Rule ....................................................... 19 6. The Human and Environmental Disaster Rules ........................................ 21 7. General International Environmental Law ............................................... 22 B. Competing Visions of the Progressive Development of Watercourse Law .......... 23 1. The Global Vision of Watercourse Law ................................................. 23 2. The Western Vision of Watercourse Law .............................................. 24 C. Shallow Shoals of Evolving Watercourse Law ............................................... 25 1. A brogated Scholarship ............................................................................ 25 2. The Meaning of Existing Uses ............................................................ 25 3. W eak Jurisdiction ...................................................................................... 28 IV . R EM EDY AND R ECOURSE ............................................................................................ 29 A . C onventions ................................................................................................... . . 29 B. Treaties and Forum Shopping ........................................................................ 34 C . A dvisory Opinion ............................................................................................ 35 D. Legal Arguments in a Legal Forum ................................................................ 36 E. Global Administration and the Court of Public Opinion ................................ 39 V. CONCLUSION: TRANSBOUNDARY JURISDICTION ...................................................... 40 t Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J.D., Yale Law School; M.A., Norwich University; B.A. Swarthmore College. Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies of Harvard University; Associate, Almaty, Boston, and New York offices of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene, and MacRae, L.L.P. Research in Central Asia conducted 1998-2000 under U.S. EPA STAR Fellowship, NSEP Graduate International Fellowship, and National Research Council Governance in Post-Communist Societies Fellowship. Thanks to Vadim P. Nee and other staff of the Law and Environment Eurasia Partnership for helpful assistance on early drafts, to Professor Durwood Zaelke for guidance, and to LeBoeuf's International Boundaries and CIS practice groups for the time to write this article, in which all errors and opinions are those solely of the author.

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