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Remarks By Gunther Handl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Gunther Handl
Gunther Handl*
Affiliation:
Wayne State University
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International Responsibility for Manmade Disasters
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 81 , 1987 , pp. 330 - 335
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1987

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References

1 Statement of Alain Carignon on Feb. 11, 1987, excerpted in 10 BNA, ENVIRONMENT REPORTER, CURRENT REP, 97, at 98 (1987). See also the Communique of the 7th Ministerial Conference concerning the pollution of the Rhine, Rotterdam, December 19, 1986, in which the Swiss Government, without acknowledging any legal obligation, simply undertook to transmit foreign claims for compensation to Sandoz.

2 For a recent affirmation of strict liability for ultrahazardous activities as an “emerging general principle of (national) law,” see WCED EXPERTS GROUP ON ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, FINAL REPORT, LEGAL PRINCIPLES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, WCED/86/23/ Add. 1, June 1986: comment to Art. 11.

3 Graefarth, Responsibility and Damages Caused: Relationship between Responsibility and Damages, 185 RECUEIL DES COURS 9, 97-8 (1984).