51. 其他法律问题涉及到责任和因果关系方面可能的问题，特别是针对跨大西洋奴隶贸易和殖民主义过后的时期方面。这方面的问题是，确定对令人发指的行为负有责任的个人、受害者的身份、受害者的后代以及所欠的金额都构成了无法克服的法律困难。164个人的、甚至是整个社会阶层要求赔偿的法律诉求所涉及的法律上错综复杂性是确实存在的。然而，这些困难不能成为否认存在基本法律义务的依据。即使司法机构受到相适用法律的约束，但如本报告第二章所述，立法和执行机构却可以不受阻碍地实行法律改革，并采取确保奴隶主和殖民大国获得赔偿的措施。特别报告员的意图是不淡化法律上对赔偿的确定过程存在着实实在在的障碍；相反，她的意图是坚持指出，凭借必要的政治意愿和道德勇气，可以通过法律和政治渠道做更多的工作，争取对殖民主义和奴隶制作出切实的赔偿。
51. Other legal concerns involve the difficulties in potential matters of responsibility and causality, especially with regard to the time that has passed since the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism. The concern is that determining the individuals responsible for horrific acts, the identities of the victims, the descendants of the victims and how much is owed poses insurmountable legal difficulties. 164 The legal complexity that would be and is involved in pursuit of individua lly and even class-based legal claims for reparations are genuine. However, such difficulties cannot be the basis for nullifying the existence of underlying legal obligations. Even if judicial bodies are constrained under applicable law, nothing prevents l egislative and executive bodies from reforming the law and taking the sort of measures that ensured that slave owners and colonizing powers received reparations, as discussed in chapter II of the present report. The intention of the Special Rapporteur is not to trivialize the practical hurdles to the legal determination of reparations; her intention is instead to insist that, with the requisite political will and moral courage, much more could be done through legal and political channels to pursue meaningful reparations for colonialism and slavery.