The United Nations Convention on jurisdictional immunities of states and their property

Cluster-Litigation in Cases of Transboundary Environmental Harm

“…between the States concerned, a State cannot invoke immunity from jurisdiction before a court of another State which is otherwise competent in a proceeding which relates to pecuniary compensation for death or injury to the person, or damage to or loss of tangible property, caused by an act or omission which is alleged to be attributable to the State, if the act or omission occurred in whole or in part in the territory of that other State and if the author of the act or omission was present in that territory at the time of the act or omission"); See also Hafner and Kohler (2004) (discussing the scope of the extra-territorial tort exception in the UN Convention). See generally Fox (2002) For the locus standi of environmental organizations, see Betlem (1993 pp.…”