In 2011, an Ecuadorian court issued the world's largest
environmental contamination liability: a $9.5 billion judgment
against Chevron. Within years, a US federal court and an
international tribunal determined that the Ecuadorian judgment had
been procured through fraud and was unenforceable. In The Small
Matter of Suing Chevron Suzana Sawyer delves into this legal
trilogy to explore how distinct legal truths were relationally
composed of, with, and through crude oil. In Sawyer's analysis,
chemistry proves crucial. Analytically, it affords a grammar for
appreciating how molecular, technical, and legal agencies catalyzed
distinct jurisdictional renderings. Empirically, the chemistry of
hydrocarbons (its complexity, unfathomability, and misattribution)
significantly shaped competing judicial determinations. Ultimately,
chemical, scientific, contractual, and litigating techniques
precipitated this legal saga's metamorphic transformation,
transmuting a contamination claim into an environmental liability,
then a racketeering scheme, and then a breach of treaty. Holding
the paradoxes of complicity in suspension, Sawyer deftly
demonstrates how crude matters, technoscience, and liberal legality
configure how risk and reward, deprivation and disavowal, suffering
and surfeit become legally and unevenly distributed.
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