This volume of new essays presents critical new scholarship on law for sustainable development. Its contributors provide international and comparative perspectives on the current state of environmental law and its future directions. The book goes beyond conventional descriptions of environmental law and policy to a theoretical and interdisciplinary analysis of the role of law in sustainable development. Starting from the premise that ecological sustainability requires environmental law systems to be sensitive to a wide array of institutional, social, and economic issues, and to emerging forms...

Law has become the vehicle by which countries in the 'developing world' - including post-conflict states or states transitioning towards some form of constitutional democracy - must steer the course of social and economic change. Legal mechanisms - in particular, the machinery of human rights - play an increasingly central role in the discourses and practices of both development and transitional justice. These developments can be seen as part of a tendency towards convergence within the wider set of discourses and practices within the field of global governance. While this process of...

Now available in paperback Law has become the vehicle by which countries in the 'developing world', including post-conflict states or states undergoing constitutional transformation, must steer the course of social, economic, legal, and political change. Legal mechanisms - in particular, the instruments as well as concepts of human rights - play an increasingly central role in the discourses and practices of both development and transitional justice. These developments can be seen as part of a tendency towards convergence within the wider set of discourses and practices in global governance....