This book focuses on how public and private international law address
civil liability for transboundary pollution. In public international
law, civil liability treaties promote the implementation of minimum
procedural standards in domestic tort law. This approach implicitly
relies on private international law to facilitate civil litigation
against transboundary polluters. Yet this connection remains poorly
understood. Filling the gap, this book engages in a meaningful dialogue
between the two areas and explores how domestic private international
law can reflect the policies developed in international environmental
law. It begins with an investigation of civil liability in international
environmental law. It then identifies preferable rules of civil
jurisdiction, foreign judgments and choice of law for environmental
damage, using Canadian private international law as a case study and
making extensive references to European law. Liability for transboundary
pollution is a contentious issue of the law, both in scholarship and
practice: international lawyers both private and public as well as
environmental lawyers will welcome this important work.