Transboundary Harm in International Law

Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration
Herausgeber: Bratspies, Rebecca M.; Rebecca M., Bratspies; Miller, Russell A.

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines how states respond to public and private actions that cause harms across international borders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780521126427
• ISBN-10: 0521126428
• Artikelnr.: 27386267

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Trail Smelter Arbitration - History, Legacy and
Revival: A. History: 1. An outcrop of Hell: history, environment, and the
politics of the Trail Smelter Dispute James R. Allum; 2. The Trail Smelter
Dispute John E. Read; B. Roots and legacy: 3. Of paradoxes, precedents and
progeny: the Trail Smelter Arbitration 65 years later Stephen C. McCaffrey;
4. Pollution by analogy: the Trail Smelter Arbitration Alfred P. Rubin; 5.
Has international law outgrown Trail Smelter? Jaye Ellis; 6. The flawed
Trail Smelter procedure: the wrong tribunal, the wrong parties, and the
wrong law John H. Knox; 7. Re-reading Trail Smelter Karin Mickelson; 8.
Trail Smelter and the International Law Commission's work on state
responsibility for internationally wrongful acts and state liability Mark
A. Drumbl; 9. Derivative Versus Direct Liability as a basis for state
liability for transboundary harms Mark Anderson; C. Return to Trail: 10.
Transboundary pollution, unilateralism and the limits of extraterritorial
jurisdiction: the second Trail Smelter Dispute Neil Craik; Part II. Trail
Smelter and Contemporary Transboundary Harm - The Environment: 11. Trail
Smelter in contemporary international environment law: its relevance in the
nuclear energy context Günther Handl; 12. Through the looking glass:
sustainable development and other emerging concepts of international
environmental law in the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros case and the Trail Smelter
arbitration James F. Jacobson; 13. Trail Smelter's (semi) precautionary
legacy Rebecca M. Bratspies; 14. Surprising parallels between Trail Smelter
and the global climate change regime Russell A. Miller; 15. Sovereignty's
continuing importance: traces of Trail Smelter in the international law
governing hazardous waste transport Austen L. Parrish; 16. The legacy of
Trail Smelter in the field of transboundary air pollution Phoebe Okowa; 17.
The impact of the Trail Smelter Arbitration on the law of the sea Stuart M.
Kaye; Part III. Trail Smelter and Contemporary Transboundary Harm - Beyond
the Environment: 18. Trail Smelter and terrorism: international mechanisms
to combat transboundary harm Pierre-Marie Dupuy and Cristin Hob; 19. The
conundrum of corporate social responsibility: reflections on the changing
nature of firms and states Peer Zumbansen; 20. A pyrrhic victory: applying
the Trail Smelter principle to State creation of refugees Jennifer Peavey
Joanis; 21. Transboundary harm: internet torts Holger P. Hestermeyer; 22.
International drug pollution? Reflections on Trail Smelter and Latin
American drug trafficking Judith Wise and Eric L. Jensen; 23. Application
of international human rights conventions to transboundary state acts
Nicola Vennemann; Annex: convention for settlement of difficulties arising
from operation of Smelter at Trail, British Columbia, Trail Smelter
Arbitral Decision 1938, and Trail Smelter Arbitral Decision 1941.