Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission: Environmental Liability

ISBN-13: 9780199732203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 392 str.

Christopher Gibson; Cymie Payne; Timothy Feighery

Opis

In Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission: Environmental Liability, experts who held leadership positions and worked directly with the UNCC draw on their experience with the institution and provide a comprehensive view of the United Nations Compensation Comission and its work in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

In this volume, the first of two on the UNCC's work, the authors explain that the United Nations Security Council established the ad hoc compensation commission to address reparations as a component of the ceasefire following Iraq's 1990-91 invasion and occupation of Kuwait. The authors also describe how the work of the United Nations Compensation Commission addressed important questions of state responsibility, environmental liability, mass claims processing, international law, and dispute settlement institutions in the post-armed conflict context. Readers will also learn that the scope and the scale of the UNCC was extraordinary, since almost 2.7 million claims from 80-plus countries were submitted to the Commission (which awarded in excess of $55 billion and has paid out more than half of that total), and that this led to the development of innovative procedural, institutional and managerial approaches in handling mass, environmental, and corporate claims at a scale that is unparalleled. Additionally, the books note that the Commission also contributed to the evolution of international jurisprudence in these areas.

O autorze

Cymie R. Payne was a senior lawyer with the UNCC's environmental claims program from 1999-2005. She is a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law where she was also Director of the Global Commons Project and Associate Director of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment. Ms. Payne practiced law with the US Department of the Interior in Washington, DC, and the firm of Goodwin, Procter, LLP in Boston. She is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and a member of the bars of California and Massachusetts. Peter H. Sand is a lecturer in international environmental law at the Faculty of Law, University of Munich, Germany; formerly Associate Professor of Law at McGill University Montreal, Canada. Before serving as UNCC Commissioner on the F4 Panel in 1999-2005, he held a number of international positions, including Senior Legal Officer of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Assistant Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Chief of the Environmental Law Unit of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and Legal Adviser for Environmental Affairs of the World Bank.