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The Bhopal Disaster Approaches 25: Looking Back to Look Forward: Thinking About Justice “Outside of the Box:” Could Restorative Justice Practices Create Justice for Victims of International Disasters?

Cooper, Davalene
June 4, 2015

Source: (2008) New England Law Review, vol. 42:693-700

Using the Union Carbide plant disaster in Bhopal, India, the author suggests how restorative justice practices, particularly the truth commission, could be implemented in events of corporate negligence and abuse.

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