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Zusatztext Magisterial and magnificent, the father of environmental law in the UK on its making. Informationen zum Autor Richard Macrory Hon KC is Emeritus Professor of environmental law at University College London where he set up and was first director of the Centre for Law and the Environment. Professor Macrory served as a board member of the Environment Agency England and Wales between 1999 and 2004, and was a long-standing member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Environmental Law. In 2006 Professor Macrory led the Cabinet Office Review on Regulatory Sanctions and his recommendations were reflected in Part 3 Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 which established the framework for civil sanctions in the regulatory field. Professor Macrory was the first chair of the UK Environmental Law Association, and in 2016-2018 was co-chair of the UKELA's Brexit Task Force. He is a bencher of Grays Inn, and was appointed an Hon. KC in 2008.Insightful and personal account of the development of modern environmental law by one if its key protagonists Zusammenfassung At a time of profound change and rethinking! this book provides insights into how environmental law in the UK has developed into its current form! and considers challenges it will face in the future. Irresolute Clay is not a legal history or textbook! nor a conventional set of legal memoirs. Instead it offers a personal account of the inside stories as experienced by one of the key architects of contemporary environmental law. Taking a thematic approach! it charts fundamental tenets of the subject (such as environmental sanctions! the European dimension! developing the academic discipline of environmental law! and environmental courts and tribunals)! from the beginnings of the modern environmental law era in the 1970s to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Early Legal Environmental Activism2. The Windscale Inquiry 3. The Emergence of Environmental Lawyers in the UK 4. Environmental Law as an Academic Discipline: Early Sparks 5. Practising Environmental Law as a Barrister 6. Influencing Public Policy: Parliamentary Select Committees 7. A National Environmental Agency 8. Academic Environmental Law Comes of Age 9. Swirling Worlds: The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 10. Environmental Courts and Tribunals 11. Reforming Regulatory Sanctions 12. The European Dimension 13. Brexit and Environmental Law...
