This special issue explores reparations for harms from colonialism, slavery, and pollution, highlighting limitations in international law.
This special issue of the American Journal of International Law —devoted entirely to reparations in international law—offers a range of perspectives on reparations for large-scale harms relating to colonialism, slavery, industrialization, and transboundary pollution. As the symposium authors describe, the gap between the reparations that justice might demand and the ones that international law provides is enormous. The international law for reparations does not come close to remedying such harms and is not poised to do so anytime soon.
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