NLI PRE-READING LIST
General
• Handbook on Nuclear Law, Carlton Stoiber, Alec Baer, Norbert Pelzer and Wolfram Tonhauser, IAEA, 2003
[Link]
• Handbook on Nuclear Law Implementing Legislation, Carlton Stoiber, Abdelmadjid Cherf, Wolfram Tonhauser
and Maria De Lourdes Vez Carmona, IAEA, 2010
[Link]
• Overview of the International Legal Framework Governing the Safe and Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy -
Some Practical Steps, by J. Rautenbach, W. Tonhauser and A. Wetherall, in International Nuclear Law in the
Post-Chernobyl Period, 2006
[Link]
• The NLI Curriculum: A Comprehensive Programme on Nuclear Law, A. Cherf, in Nuclear Law Institute: A
Collective View on a Decade of Capacity Building and Development in Nuclear Law, IAEA, 2022
[Link] (pp. 11-20)
• Nuclear Law: The Global Debate, Rafael Mariano Grossi, in Nuclear Law: The Global Debate, IAEA, 2022
Nuclear Law: The Global Debate ([Link])
• IAEA Brief – The Importance of Having and Adequate National Legal Framework for the Safe, Secure and
Peaceful Use of Nuclear Technology (2017)
[Link]
• E-Learning Module on Legal Framework
[Link]
Nuclear Safety
• The International Legal Framework on Nuclear Safety : Developments, Challenges and Opportunities, by
Wolfram Tonhauser and Anthony Wetherall, in International Nuclear Law: History, Evolution and Outlook, 2010
[Link] p. 157
• The IAEA Conventions on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident and on Assistance in Case of a Nuclear
Accident or Radiological Emergency, by Hon. Prof. em. Rechtsanwalt DDr. Berthold Moser, in International
Nuclear Law in the Post-Chernobyl Period, 2006
[Link]
• The Convention on Nuclear Safety, by Odette Jankowitsch and Wolfram Tonhauser, in Austrian Journal of
International and European Law 2, 1997, p. 319
• The Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste
Management, by W. Tonhauser and O. Jankowitsch-Prevor, in International Nuclear Law in the Post-Chernobyl
Period, 2006
[Link]
Nuclear Security
• Nuclear Security; Legal Aspects of Physical Protection, Combatting Illicit trafficking and Nuclear Terrorism, by
Carlton Stoiber, in International Nuclear Law: History, Evolution and Outlook, 2010
[Link] p. 219
• The International Regime on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and the Amendment to the Convention
on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, by Lourdes Vez Carmona, in Nuclear Law Bulletin 76, 2005
[Link]
• Facilitating the entry into force and implementation of the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical
Protection of Nuclear Material: Observations, challenges and benefits, by Peri Lynne Johnson, in Nuclear Law
Bulletin 94, 2014
Nuclear Law Bulletin No. 94 Volume 2014/2 ([Link])
• Relationship Between Legally Binding and Non-Binding Instruments In The International Legal Framework For
Nuclear Security, by J. Herbach, in Nuclear Law Institute: A Collective View on a Decade of Capacity Building
and Development in Nuclear Law, IAEA, 2022
[Link] (pp. 107-122)
Safeguards
• IAEA Brief – The Legal Framework for IAEA Safeguards (2018)
[Link]
• The IAEA Safeguards System, by Laura Rockwood, in International Nuclear Law: History, Evolution and
Outlook, 2010
[Link] p. 243
• The Safeguards System of the International Atomic Energy Agency
[Link]
• Legal Frameworks for Nuclear Security And Safeguards - Developments and Synergies, by J. Herbach and S.
Fanielle
[Link] (pp. 123-139)
Liability
• Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage, International Expert Group on Nuclear Liability (INLEX), GOV/INF/2004/9-
GC(48)/INF/5
[Link]
• Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage: Advantages and Disadvantages of Joining the International Nuclear Liability
Regime, A paper by the International Expert Group on Nuclear Liability (INLEX)
[Link]
• INLEX Recommendations
Recommendations on how to facilitate achievement of a global nuclear liability regime ([Link])
• A Collective View on the First Two Decades, INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, International
Expert Group on Nuclear Liability (INLEX), Non-serial Publications, IAEA, Vienna (2024)
[Link]
• Nuclear Liability and Post-Fukushima Developments, by Steven McIntosh, in Nuclear Law: The Global Debate,
IAEA, 2022
Nuclear Liability and Post-Fukushima Developments | SpringerLink
