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Beyond The Liability Wall: Strengthening Tort Remedies In International Environmental Law, Noah M. Sachs
Beyond The Liability Wall: Strengthening Tort Remedies In International Environmental Law, Noah M. Sachs
Law Faculty Publications
Despite decades of effort, the international community has stumbled in attempts to craft tort remedies for victims of transboundary environmental damage. More than a dozen civil liability treaties have been negotiated that create causes of action and prescribe liability rules, but few have entered into force, and most remain unadapted orphans in international environmental law. In this Article, I explain the problematic record of tort liability regimes by developing a theoretical model of liability negotiations grounded in regime theory from political science. Based on this model, I conclude that negotiated liability regimes have foundered because of three main roadblocks: ( …
Brownfields And Brac: A Surprising "Compatibility", Joel B. Eisen
Brownfields And Brac: A Surprising "Compatibility", Joel B. Eisen
Law Faculty Publications
In Part I of this Article, I describe the BRAC process and compare it to the process for remediating abandoned or underused sites in state brownfields programs. I find that while the two systems are different in many significant respects, these differences do not overwhelm the commonalities inherent in comparing two systems that focus on remediating sites and transferring them to their new owners. In Part II, I describe the environmental remediation process of BRAC and positive "surprises" in terms of the statutory preference for finality in remedial actions and for public participation at sites being closed and the more …