Article 11 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) currently provides that "environmental protection requirements must be integrated into the definition and implementation of the Union policies and activities, in particular with a view to promoting sustainable development"....

The paper analyzes the EPA's proposed 'total maximum daily load' (TMDL) rules for water quality regulation. The benefits of movement to a system that drives pollutant reductions from ambient water conditions are described. The paper argues that while TMDLs are a highly desirable form of...

This working paper sets out some initial thoughts on the approach taken in the draft Environment (Principles and Governance) Bill to environmental principles. It sets them against the backdrop of the existing nature and role of environmental principles in environmental law, focusing on the...

While public environmental law, regulation and governance have paved the traditional road towards environmental and natural resource protection, the pathway has been expanded to include a broader orbit of interest areas and regulatory tools in an effort to achieve sustainability. Through the...

This is a book review of Ben Pontin, THE ENVIRONMENTAL CASE FOR BREXIT: A SOCIO-LEGAL PERSPECTIVE Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2019, 157 pp ISBN 978-150992-089-1. This review has been submitted to the Journal of Environmental Law

In a framework characterized by a relatively high degree of institutionalization, such as that of the European Union, it became difficult to imagine that the problem of Green Public Procurement (GPP) could surpass it. The special importance of the GPP, due to its favorable effects on the...

This paper discusses the case law of the ECJ which shows that individuals are deprived of any direct legal protection at the ECJ against environmental directives and regulations. The case of the Court of Justice shows that the ECJ has failed adequately to appreciate that the old remedies,...

This paper reviews the various areas of tension between competition and environmental protection. It examines the compatibility with EC competition rules of the environmental agreements, certain behaviours of dominant undertakings carrying out environmental activities, the exclusive rights...

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has the potential to remake political and legal relationships between the EU and the US and pave the way to a new form of global economic governance based on international regulatory cooperation. In particular, TTIP presents an historic...

Vulnerability, marginalization, and resilience in the pandemic and in an eventual “post-pandemic” state are examined through the lens of Achille Mbembe’s theory of necropolitics. The central claim made is that vulnerability and marginalization are products of a covert and intentional...