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Transboundary Damage in International Law »

Authors: Hanqin Xue
ISBN-13: 9780521118309, ISBN-10: 0521118301
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Hanqin Xue

Xue Hanqin is Director-General of the Law and Treaty Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China. She was one of the first women to be elected (in 2001) to the International Law Commission. She has broad experience in both bilateral and multilateral negotiations of international treaties on various subjects of public international law. She is also a professor of law at the Beijing University School of Law and the College of Foreign Diplomacy of China, and Vice-President of the Chinese Society of International Law.

Book Synopsis

An examination of the problems of transnational environmental damage.

	Foreword
	Preface and acknowledgments
	List of treaties
	List of cases
	List of abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Accidental damage
2	Liability for accidental damage	19
3	Substantive rules and principle: issues and problems	73
Pt. II	Non-accidental damage
4	Liability for non-accidental damage	113
5	The doctrine of due diligence and standards of conduct	162
Pt. III	Damage to the global commons
6	Liability for damage to the global commons	191
7	Legal issues relating to damage to the global commons	236
Pt. IV	Underlying principles
8	The nature and basis of international liability	269
9	Conclusions	317
	Bibliography	333
	Index	356