This article suggests that were federal environmental regulators to view themselves as human rights decisionmakers, we might well see a new kind of regulatory decisionmaking emerge — one not only more responsive and transparent, but also more likely to enjoy the trust of the American public....

The essence of a conservation easement as a static perpetual restriction is coming to a head with the understanding that the world is a changing place. This demonstration is nowhere more dramatic than in the context of global climate change. In response to this conflict, users of conservation...

Spurred on by mounting international concern about the environmental impacts of the oil sands and determined to secure Canada’s status as a global energy superpower, Canada and Alberta recently announced the establishment of a “world class” monitoring plan for the Lower Athabasca Region of...

In recent years, one of the most salient aspects of environmentalism has been the environmental justice movement and its complaints of discrimination against the poor and racial minorities in the administration and enforcement of the nation's environmental laws. One of the most severe criticisms...

The existing environmental regulatory architecture, largely erected in the 1970s, is outdated and ill-suited to address contemporary environmental concerns. Any debate on the future of environmental protection, if it is to be meaningful, must span the political spectrum. Yet there is little...

In this article, "things" lawyers call "principles" of environmental law will be discussed from a theoretical perspective. Three fundamental questions are answered: 1. Where does the high moral value that is usually attributed principles come from? 2. What is the exact difference between a...

Environmental justice is a notion coined in the U.S. in an attempt to protect the environments of minorities whose neighbourhoods had been used to store hazardous waste. Attempts have been made to evolve this concept on a global scale to protect the environments of periphery nations around 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

If humanitarian tragedies caused by war have for a long time been the object of legal regulation, it was not until recently that the protection of the natural environment in armed conflict has attracted similar attention. The consequence is that there is yet no homogenous body of law that...