Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law

Dr Eloise Scotford is a Senior Lecturer at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, where she teaches and researches in environmental law.

... this book is a rigorously analytical and intellectually inspiring piece of scholarship. It combines fine-grained critique with big picture commentary to challenge dominant or default views of environmental principles and environmental law more broadly. The book will be of interest not only to scholars and practitioners of environmental law but also to those concerned with public administration and comparative constitutionalism.

• 1. Principles Principles Everywhere: Making Sense ofEnvironmental Principles as Legal Concepts I. Introduction II. Environmental Principles and Their High Profile in Environmental Law III. Methodology and Scope IV. Conclusion 2. Environmental Principles and Environmental Law I. Introduction II. Why So Much Principle? III. Limitations in Appraising Environmental Principles Legally IV. Conclusion 3. Legal Contours of Environmental Principles Across Jurisdictions I. Introduction II. Environmental Principles in Public International Law III. Environmental Principles in EU Law IV. Environmental Principles in NSW Law V. Conclusion 4. Environmental Principles in European Union Case Law I. Introduction II. The Jurisdiction and Institutional Identity of EU Courts: Reasoning with EnvironmentalPrinciples in EU Legal Culture III. Policy Cases IV. Interpretive CasesV. Informing Legal Test Cases: Reviewing the Boundaries and Exercise of EUEnvironmental Competence VI. Principle of Sustainable Development VII. Conclusion 5. Principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development in the New South Wales Land and Environment Court I. Introduction II. The NSW Land and Environment Court: III. Mapping the ESD Case Law IV. Conclusion 6. Conclusions I. Environmental Principles and Doctrinal Evolution II. Environmental Principles in Environmental Law Scholarship