Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Keywords
globalization, litigation, regulatory norms, transparency
Abstract
This article explores three areas in which globalization is profoundly affecting the development of a global environmental law. First, countries increasingly are borrowing law and regulatory innovations from one another to respond to common environmental problems. Although this is not an entirely new phenomenon, it is occurring at an unprecedented pace. Second, lawsuits seeking to hold companies liable for environmental harm they have caused outside their home countries are raising new questions concerning the appropriate venue for such transnational liability litigation and the standards courts should apply for enforcement of foreign judgments. Third, nongovernmental organizations are playing an increasingly important role in influencing corporate behavior by promoting greater informational disclosure and transparency to mobilize informed consumers.
Publication Citation
86 Washington Law Review 579 (2011).
Disciplines
Environmental Law | Environmental Policy
Digital Commons Citation
86 Washington Law Review 579 (2011).