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Transboundary Harm in Inteational Law: Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration
by: Rebecca M. Bratspies (Editor), Russell A. Miller (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (14 Aug. 2006)
Language: English
Print length: 372 pages
ISBN-10: 0521856434
ISBN-13: 9780521856430
Book Description
This book reveals the many harms which flow across the ever-more porous sovereign borders of a globalising world. These harms expose weaknesses in the inteational legal regime built on sovereignty of nation states. Using the Trail Smelter Arbitration, one of the most cited cases in inteational 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 inteational law generally, and inteational environmental law specifically. In particular, the book explores whether there are lessons from Trail Smelter that are useful for resolving transboundary challenges confronting the inteational community. The book collects the commentary of a distinguished set of inteational law scholars who consider the history of the Trail Smelter arbitration, its significance for inteational environmental law, its broader relationship to inteational law, and its resonance in fields beyond the environment.
