LSAT 154 | Section 3 | Reading Comprehension: Q22

RC Question 22 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Again, it’s difficult to prephrase the correct answer here. Instead, you should read each answer choice carefully, paying attention to facts, tone, quantifiers (most, some, all), and certainty (should, can, will).

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1. Paragraph 4 says that international court decisions are no longer the principle means by which international environmental disputes are resolved. Since there’s no other evidence stating they have “long-standing preoccupation” with customary law, we can’t infer they’re prepared to make balanced decisions.
2. The relationship between governments and private industries isn’t discussed.
3. CORRECT. The last sentence of paragraph 2 tells us that under customary international law norms, nations only rarely remedy the environment harms they cause, suggesting there’s no legal accountability
4. “Most” makes this wrong as we can’t infer this from the passage. Also the passage doesn’t discuss disagreements about what constitutes customary law (too broad, we’re concerned with customary INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT law).
5. They’re ineffective, we don’t know if they’re outdated.