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43 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 417 (2018)
Corrupt at Its Core: How Law Failed the Victims of Waste Dumping in Cote d' Ivoire

handle is hein.journals/cjel43 and id is 425 raw text is: Corrupt at-Its Core: How Law Failed the Victims of Waste Dumping in C6te d' Ivoire Rebecca Bratspies* I. Introduction ............ 418 II. Introduction to Corruption ..................... .....422 III. The Dumping in C6te d'Ivoire: A Lesson in Implicit Corruption ................................ ...... 438 IV. How the Trafigura Case Has Fit into the Law. ............ 449 A. What Does Human Rights Law Have to Say About This Incident? ................................ .....455 B. What Was Trafigura's Due Diligence Obligation?.................456 V. Implicit Corruption ................................ 463 VI. Conclusion ................................. ..... 467 * Professor, CUNY School of Law, Director Center for Urban Environmental Reform. Parts of this Article were originally written for the 6th Ingram Colloquium at the University of New South Wales, and benefitted immensely from discussions at that event. I owe a debt of gratitude to my colleagues Sarah Lamdan and Doug Cox, and to 3L Abigail Downs for their research support, to Erika George, Carmen Gonzalez, and Andrea McArdle for their valuable feedback, and to the students in my EnvironmentalJustice class whose unanswered questions encouraged me to research this topic. 417

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