From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 12 February 2025
- Subject(s):
- Pollution — Responsibility of states — Boundaries
Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020).
1 The international law of transboundary pollution is part of international environmental law and is also part of the still emerging international energy law. It is among the historically oldest layers of international environmental law, which has its roots in the Trail Smelter Arbitration and, arguably less directly, the Corfu Channel Case. The focus of the law has moved from repairing the effects of such pollution to their preventive control. The sources of the legal control of transboundary pollution have diversified. In addition to territorial integrity...
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