Liability for Environmental Harm to the Global Commons

Neil Craik is Professor of Law at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has published widely in the fields of international and Canadian environmental law and the law of the sea and is co-editor of Global Environmental Change and Innovation in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Tara Davenport is an Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore where she teaches Principles of Property Law, Law of the Sea and International Regulation of Shipping. Her research interests are in law of the sea, the global commons, and maritime disputes. Ruth Mackenzie is Reader in International Law at the University of Westminster, where she teaches and researches in the fields of international environmental law, law of the sea, and international courts and tribunals. Ruth is a Member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Purposes of, and approaches to, international liability; 3. Definition and valuation of compensable environmental damage; 4. Allocation of liability for environmental harm in areas beyond national jurisdiction; 5. Standards of liability; 6. Standing to bring claims for environmental harm in areas beyond national jurisdiction; 7. Access to remedies; 8. Insurance and compensation funds; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

'As States and other actors increasingly undertake risky activities in areas beyond national jurisdiction, determining liability for environmental harm is sure to become an issue of central importance. This book, by three leading experts in international environmental law, makes important contributions to our understanding of the application of general principles of liability to the global commons and the emerging regime specific rules on liability. The authors' approach allows for a theoretically informed analysis and the generation of new insights into the current state and future trajectory of liability in international legal settings. This work will be a great interest to scholars, students and practitioners in the fields of international environmental law and law of the sea, as well as to international lawyers interested in state responsibility and the treatment of community interests in international law.' Timo Koivurova, Research Professor, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland