Professor Chander Publishes Op-ed on Nuclear Disaster in L.A. Times
Professor Anupam Chander has published an op-ed on issues of legal liability associated with the nuclear plant disaster in Fukushima, Japan in the Los Angeles Times. The article, "Who's to blame for Fukushima?" explores issues including whether General Electric, which designed the reactors, may face liability.
"Modern disasters are, in an important sense, man-made," writes Chander. "Because of this fact, the need to assign legal liability will arise. It is too early yet to know who bears the blame, and it is accordingly too early to be assured that GE is well-insulated from liability. The regulators, the operator and perhaps others may well have failed the public. It is the role of the legal process to ensure that the economic burden of the disaster falls on the party or parties responsible for it."
Professor Anupam Chander is a leading scholar in the law of globalization and digitization, and has written widely on international law, cyber law, and corporate law.