Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2011
Abstract
This paper provides an introduction to environmental tort law and practice in China, and briefly reviews China's 2009 Tort Law and its chapter on environmental torts. This paper, one of several, was prepared for U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency officials participating in a set of roundtables and discussions on environmental law enforcement in China with senior officials from the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Supreme People's Court, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Guangzhou Maritime Court, and environmental law scholars.
Automated Citation
Tseming Yang and Adam Moser,
Environmental Tort Litigation in China
(2011),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/facpubs/434
Comments
This Comment, one of several, was prepared for U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials participating in a set of round tables in May 2010 on environmental enforcement in Beijing and Guangzhou involving senior officials from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, Supreme People’s Court, and Ministry of Environmental Protection, Guangzhou Maritime Court, other government officials, and environmental law scholars. Preparation of this Comment was supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development and Vermont Law School. Adam Moser is a former volunteer with the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims at the China University of Political Science and Law, and researcher at Shandong University Law School’s Human Rights Research Center; these experiences were made possible with support from the University of Cincinnati College of Law’s Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights.