The phenomenon of legal convergence and the progressive reimagining of international water law
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2026-04-15
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Mcintyre, Owen
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ertain institutions, mechanisms and processes preserve the coherence of international water law, despite its proliferation and the diversity of its sources, within a unitary system of international law. These include the universalist instincts of international courts, routine legal codification, the integrative role of general principles, and the universal character of increasingly relevant human rights norms. ‘Convergence’ unifies and enriches modern international water law some 60 years after first being codified, assisting it in addressing challenges posed by the looming global water crisis through the gradual interpenetration and cross-fertilization of previously somewhat compartmentalized areas of international law
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© 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any med-ium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this articlehas been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation , SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions , Codification , Convergence , Fragmentation , Judicial communication , Legal coherence , Regime interaction , Systematic unity of international law , Water crisis , [Law]
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Mcintyre, O 2026, 'The phenomenon of legal convergence and the progressive reimagining of international water law', Water International, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 246–265. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2026.2650729
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