Elizabeth (Professor of Environmental Law, Corpus Christi, University of Oxford) Fisher
Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques. In theory, environmental protection is a no brainer. Few people would actively argue for pollution or environmental destruction. Ensuring a clean environment is ethically desirable, and also sensible from a purely self-interested perspective. Yet, in practice, environmental law is a messy and complex business fraught with conflict. Whilst environmental law is often characterized in overly...
Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a r...