Insights and Ironies: The American Bhopal Cases
12 Pages Posted: 1 Oct 2014
Date Written: January 1, 1985
Abstract
This paper deals with the question whether an American court should have accepted jurisdiction over the Bhopal disaster case. On the usual presumption of the truth of the allegations concerning the American company's responsibility for the disaster, it is argued that failure to take jurisdiction was unwarranted, and predicted that the injured plaintiffs would not be afforded timely relief in India, a prediction that was tragically borne out during the decade that followed.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Weinberg, Louise, Insights and Ironies: The American Bhopal Cases (January 1, 1985). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2503492 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2503492
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