Transboundary Harm in International Law: Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration

1. “An Outcrop of Hell”: History, Environment, and the Politics of the Trail Smelter Dispute
2. The Trail Smelter Dispute [Abridged
3. Of Paradoxes, Precedents, and Progeny: The Trail Smelter Arbitration 65 Years Later
4. Pollution by Analogy: The Trial Smelter Arbitration [Abridged]
5. Has International Law Outgrown Trail Smelter?
6. The Flawed Trail Smelter Procedure: The Wrong Tribunal, the Wrong Parties, and the Wrong Law
7. Rereading Trail Smelter [Abridged
8. Trail Smelter and the International Law Commission’s Work on State Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts and State Liability
9. Derivative versus Direct Liability as a Basis for State Liability for Transboundary Harms
10. Transboundary Pollution, Unilateralism, and the Limits of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: The Second Trail Smelter Dispute
11. Trail Smelter in Contemporary International Environmental Law: Its Relevance in the Nuclear Energy Context
12. Through the Looking Glass: Sustainable Development and Other Emerging Concepts of International Environmental Law in the Gabˇcikovo-Nagymaros Case and the Trail Smelter Arbitration
13. Trail Smelter’s (Semi) Precautionary Legacy
14. Surprising Parallels between Trail Smelter and the Global Climate Change Regime
15. Sovereignty’s Continuing Importance: Traces of Trail Smelter in the International Law Governing Hazardous Waste Transport
16. The Legacy of Trail Smelter in the Field of Transboundary Air Pollution
17. The Impact of the Trail Smelter Arbitration on the Law of the Sea
18. Trail Smelter and Terrorism: International Mechanisms to Combat Transboundary Harm
19. The Conundrum of Corporate Social Responsibility: Reflections on the Changing Nature of Firms and States
20. A Pyrrhic Victory: Applying the Trail Smelter Principle to State Creation of Refugees
21. Transboundary Harm: Internet Torts
22. International Drug Pollution? Reflections on Trail Smelter and Latin American Drug Trafficking
23. Application of International Human Rights Conventions to Transboundary State Acts

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