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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="783181109-15042011">Dear sir/madam,</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="623220214-11042011"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">On behalf of the Research Project on Shared Responsibility in International Law (SHARES), I hereby approach you with
 the following request. Would you be so kind to announce the official launch of our website on<span class="290071114-11042011"> Intlawprofessors</span>? The announcement reads as follows:
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><font color="#0000ff">The Research Project on
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Shared Responsibility in International Law</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> (SHARES)<b>
</b></span>is pleased to announce the official launch of the SHARES website: </font>
<a title="http://www.sharesproject.nl/" href="http://www.sharesproject.nl/"><font title="http://www.sharesproject.nl/" color="#0000ff">www.sharesproject.nl</font></a><font color="#0000ff">.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><o:p><font color="#0000ff">&nbsp;</font></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><font color="#0000ff">The website&nbsp;includes a detailed description of the SHARES project and its project
 members. The website also&nbsp;features news, events, publications, blog posts and resources on shared responsibility in international law.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000ff"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">The ambition of the SHARES project is to examine an unexplored and largely unrecognized problem: the allocation
 of international responsibilities among multiple states and other actors. It seeks to uncover the nature and extent of the problem of sharing responsibility in an increasingly interdependent and heterogeneous international legal order. SHARES will therefore
 offer new concepts, principles and perspectives for understanding how the </span>
<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="NL">international legal order may deal with shared responsibilities.<span class="290071114-11042011">&nbsp;</span></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000ff"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="NL"><span class="290071114-11042011"></span></span></font><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="NL"><o:p><font color="#0000ff">&nbsp;</font></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><font color="#0000ff">The SHARES project is a research project of the
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Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> for International Law, led by Professor André Nollkaemper, and funded by the European Research Council.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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</span>Thanking you in advance for your help. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="NL">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="NL"><span class="623220214-11042011">Isabelle Swerissen</span></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: gray; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Ms I.S.M.A. Swerissen, LLM MSc<br>
<i>Research Associate</i><br>
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