Liability for Transboundary Pollution at the Intersection of Public and Private International Law [Paperback]

This book focuses on how public and private international law address civil liability for transboundary pollution. In public international law, civil liability treaties promote the implementation of minimum procedural standards in domestic tort law. This approach implicitly relies on private international law to facilitate civil litigation against transboundary polluters. Yet this connection remains poorly understood. Filling the gap, this book engages in a meaningful dialogue between the two areas and explores how domestic private international law can reflect the policies developed in international environmental law. It begins with an investigation of civil liability in international environmental law. It then identifies preferable rules of civil jurisdiction, foreign judgments and choice of law for environmental damage, using Canadian private international law as a case study and making extensive references to European law. Liability for transboundary pollution is a contentious issue of the law, both in scholarship and practice: international lawyers both private and public as well as environmental lawyers will welcome this important work.This book makes a significant contribution to our understating of how transboundary pollution should be dealt with by international law, with reference to EU and private international law regimes.Guillaume Lagani?reis Professor of Law at the Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Canada.

Strongly theoretical and in-depth. Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht [Bloomsbury translation]

Librarians and lawyers, both novice and experienced, will appreciate this text. It can be considered a must-have for any practice dealing with environmental law and transboundary pollution issues. Laura Lemmens,Canadian Law Library Review

This book provides new research ideas and frameworks, manifests the complex and understated links between PrIL and international environmental law, and provides a sound conceptul“¡