Perspectives on Environmental Law Scholarship: Essays on Purpose, Shape and Direction

Description

This collection invites environmental law scholars to reflect on what it means to be an environmental law scholar and to consider how and why environmental law scholars engage in environmental law scholarship. Leading environmental law scholars from different backgrounds and jurisdictions offer their personal reflections on the nature, form, quality and challenges of environmental law scholarship. The collection offers the first honest introspection on what environmental law scholarship is and is not. It considers the unique contributions of environmental law scholarship to legal scholarship more generally, reflecting on what sets environmental law scholarship apart from other disciplines of legal scholarship and the challenges arising from these differences.

Ole W. Pedersen is Reader in Environmental Law and joint Director of Research at Newcastle University Law School. Dr Pedersen actively researches the areas of environmental law, enforcement, justice and rights, and hydraulic fracturing and his scholarship engages with conceptual and foundational issues of environmental law and legal scholarship as well as the role of the courts in shaping modern environmental law. He is joint author of an established textbook on environmental law and Deputy Director of the Global Network of Human Rights and the Environment.