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Presents the first comprehensive reflection on the nature of environmental law scholarship from the perspectives of leading scholars in the field.
List of contents
1. Introduction Ole W. Pedersen; 2. What legal scholarship can contribute to environmental law Todd Aagaard; 3. Back to basics: thinking about the craft of environmental law scholarship Elizabeth Fisher; 4. Environmental law scholarship: systematization, reform, explanation, and understanding Daniel Bonilla Maldonado; 5. (Un)-making the boundaries of environmental law scholarship: interdisciplinarity beyond the social sciences? Margherita Pieraccini; 6. Crossing disciplines in planning: a renewable energy case study Maria Lee, Simon Lock, Lucy Natarajan and Yvonne Rydin; 7. Economics and environmental law scholarship Caroline Cecot and Michael Livermore; 8. What is the point of international environmental law scholarship in the Anthropocene? Tim Stephens; 9. Reflections on the future of environmental law scholarship and methodology in the Anthropocene Louis J. Kotzè; 10. The unifying force of climate change scholarship Dan Farber; 11. Environmental law scholarship in a developing country - an alternative discourse Camena Guneratne; 12. President Trump, the New Chicago School and the future of environmental law and scholarship Jason J. Czarnezki and Sarah Schindler; 13. EU environmental law and European environmental law scholarship Ludwig Krämer; 14. The culture of environmental law and practices of environmental law scholarship Ole W. Pedersen.
About the author
Ole W. Pedersen is Reader in Environmental Law and joint Director of Research at Newcastle University Law School. Dr Pedersen actively researches the areas of environmental law, enforcement, justice and rights, and hydraulic fracturing and his scholarship engages with conceptual and foundational issues of environmental law and legal scholarship as well as the role of the courts in shaping modern environmental law. He is joint author of an established textbook on environmental law and Deputy Director of the Global Network of Human Rights and the Environment.
Summary
This collection of essays contains personal reflections by leading scholars in the field on the nature, form, quality and challenges of environmental law scholarship. It will be of value to scholars and students of environmental law who consider environmental law their disciplinary home.
