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Chernobyl: Law and Communication. By Philippe J. Sands [Grotius Publications Limited, Cambridge, England, 1988, 312 pp.].

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2016

Moshe Hirsh
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Israel Law Review , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , Autumn 1989 , pp. 563 - 566
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1989

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L.L.M. Candidate and Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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1 According to recent reports, 20 villages were evacuated, and the medical authorities recommended evacuation of 5 more, the rate of cancer among people living in the surrounding area was doubled after the accident, and some animals were born deformed. The total material damage in the U.S.S.R. is estimated at $12.8 billion (Ha'aretz, 21.2.1989, p. 12, and 5.3.1989, p.8).

2 For a discussion of this subject from the viewpoint of environmental law, see Rest, A., “Responsibility and Liablity for Transboundary Air Pollution Damage” in Wiatkowsa, K. et al. (eds.), Transboundary Air Pollution (Nijhoff, 1986) 299 Google Scholar.

3 Trail Smelter Arbitration (1938/1941), 3 R.I.A.A. 1905 Google Scholar.

4 Some lesser standard of care is suggested in Restatement of the Law (Foreign Relations), Third, 1987, sec. 601, p. 103. On this subject see also Mallone, L.A., “The Chernobyl Accident: A Case Study in International Law Regulating State Responsibility for Transboundary Nuclear Polution” (1988) 12 Colum J. Environmental L. 203, at 212 Google Scholar.