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

This chapter from a forthcoming Cambridge Press book, Beyond Environmental Law, proposes emulating free market dynamics with a new regulatory instrument, the Environmental Competition Statute. This statute would authorize any polluter making a pollution reduction to require a dirtier competitor...

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...

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...

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,...

The appeal of voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) lies in their promise to mutually serve government, industry, and environmental interests since they can reduce administrative burdens, provide flexibility to decide how to implement environmental improvements, and work toward superior...

The relationship between desirable economic growth and environmental degradation is complex. The international community began to negotiate responsibility for the issue of global climate change twenty-one years ago. This paper suggests that the environmental Kuznets' hypothesis may provide a...

Among the most innovative provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976 were those called for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)to designate public lands as “areas of critical environmental concern” (ACECs) for protective management. In fact, FLPMA made it quite...

We analyze a model where firms chose a production technology which, together with some random event, determines the final emission level. We consider the coexistence of two alternative technologies: a "clean" technology, and a "dirty" technology. The environmental regulation is based on taxes...