TAILIEUCHUNG - Transboundary Harm In International Law

Many harms flow across the ever-more porous sovereign borders of a globalizing world. These harms expose weaknesses in the international legal regime built on sovereignty of nation states. Using the Trail Smelter arbitration, one of the most cited cases in international environmental law, this book explores the changing nature of state responses to transboundary harm. Taking a critical approach, the book examines the arbitration’s influence on international law generally and international environ- mental law specifically. In particular, the book explores whether there are lessons from Trail Smelter that are useful for resolving transboundary challenges currently confronting the international community. The book collects the commentary of a distinguished set of. | Transboundary Harm in International Law Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration Edited by Rebecca M. Brat spies This page intentionally left blank transboundary harm in international law Many harms flow across the ever-more porous sovereign borders of a globalizing world. These harms expose weaknesses in the international legal regime built on sovereignty of nation states. Using the Trail Smelter arbitration one of the most cited cases in international environmental law this book explores the changing nature of state responses to transboundary harm. Taking a critical approach the book examines the arbitration s influence on international law generally and international environmental law specifically. In particular the book explores whether there are lessons from Trail Smelter that are useful for resolving transboundary challenges currently confronting the international community. The book collects the commentary of a distinguished set of international law scholars who consider the history of the Trail Smelter arbitration its significance for international environmental law its broader relationship to international law and its resonance in fields beyond the environment. Rebecca M. Bratspies holds a . in Biology from Wesleyan University and graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and awarded the Green Prize for Excellence in Torts. She was named a Luce Foundation Scholar and Seconded to Taiwan s Ministry of the Environment. Her scholarly research focuses on environmental regulatory regimes she is particularly interested in the international dimensions of environmental regulation and the role of nonstate actors. She currently holds an associate professorship of law at CUNY School of Law where she teaches environmental property and administrative law. While on the faculty at the University of Idaho College of Law she cofounded with Russell Miller the Annual Idaho International Law .

• Môi trường
• Direct Liability
• Pollution
• Unilateralism
• Transboundary
• the Limits
• Extraterritorial Jurisdiction