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Litigating Canada-U.S. Transboundary Harm, Austen L. Parrish, Shi-Ling Hsu

Austen L. Parrish

This Article joins a spirited debate ongoing among international law scholars. Numerous articles have debated the changing nature of interna-tional law and relations: the impact of globalization, the decline of territorial-sovereignty, the ever important role that non-state actors play, and the growing use of domestic laws to solve transboundary problems. That scholarship, however, often speaks only in general theoretical terms, and has largely ignored how these changes are playing out in countries outside the United States in way that impact American interests. This Article picks up where that scholarship leaves off. It examines one of the perennial challenges for international …