This book provides many exercises and case analyses to help teach legal competency, especially to beginning students learning to write briefs and written examinations. The reader will improve his ability to avoid the typical errors that occur in setting priorities or describing legal issues, and is instructed in proper procedure. The textbook is rounded out with suggested organizational strategies for legal study.

Can—and should—participation be a means of achieving sustainability? The concepts of sustainability and participation are both in vogue, and many international, supranational and national legal texts and standards refer to these two concepts. However, there are still several unanswered questions that invite legal inquiry: which sustainability? Which kinds of participation? Participation by whom? How are the two concepts of sustainability and participation effectively interlinked in legal provisions? This book approaches the interconnection between sustainability and participation...