The gap between this periodic needfor the international community to intervene in a state’s management of environmental disasters and the prohibition on intervention could be filled by an extension of a relatively new norm to this situation.
-- Our colleague Linda A. Malone (below left), Marshall-Wythe Professor of Law and Director of the Human Security Law Program, William and Mary Law 
School in Williamsburg, Virginia, in "The Responsibility to Protect in Haiti," an ASIL Insight that carefully explains how the concept of responsibility to protect may be employed to encourage action by the U.N. Security Council in time of environmental disasters like that pictured above right (credit) -- the aftermath of the January earthquake in Haiti.
School in Williamsburg, Virginia, in "The Responsibility to Protect in Haiti," an ASIL Insight that carefully explains how the concept of responsibility to protect may be employed to encourage action by the U.N. Security Council in time of environmental disasters like that pictured above right (credit) -- the aftermath of the January earthquake in Haiti.
