Principles of International Environmental Law

Philippe Sands, Jacqueline Peel, Ruth MacKenzie

Cambridge University Press, May 3, 2012 - Law - 926 pages

The third edition of this classic textbook offers comprehensive and critical commentary on international environmental law. It fully covers the key topics of the course and is clearly structured to include the history and framework in which international environmental law exists, key areas of regulation and implementation, links to other areas of law and future developments. It has been updated to incorporate all the latest developments in treaty and case law. Extensive feedback on previous editions results in a restructuring of material, including a new part focused on linkage to other areas of international law including human rights, international trade and foreign investment. There is also a new chapter on future developments charting the directions in which the subject is moving. Specialist authors writing on oceans, seas and fisheries and biodiversity add to the expertise of the two principal authors for an authoritative overview of the subject.

Contents

• Foreword: xxi
• Preface and acknowledgments to the first edition: xxv
• Preface and acknowledgments to the second edition: xxix
• Preface and acknowledgments to the third edition: xxxi
• Table of cases: xxxiii
• Table of treaties and other international instruments: xxxvii
• Abbreviations: lxiii
• Part I The legal and institutional framework: 1
• Part 2 Principles and rules establishing standards: 185
• Part 3 Techniques for implementing international principles and rules: 599
• Part 4 Linkage of international environmental law and other areas of international law: 773
• Index: 898

About the author

Philippe Sands was born in 1960 in London. He is a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, receiving his B.A. in 1982 and his LLM, first class honours in 1983. He finished his postgraduate studies at Cambridge and was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. He has held positions at numerous distinguished universities around the world. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1985. He has written numerous academic and general nonfiction books, newspaper articles, book reviews, and more. His books include Lawless World, and Torture Team. In 2016, he won the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, for East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. Jacqueline Peel is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School, with a background in environmental science and law. She has taught many courses in environmental law, international environmental law and climate change law, and has published widely in the field.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Principles of International Environmental Law
• Authors: Philippe Sands, Jacqueline Peel, Ruth MacKenzie
• Contributor: Ruth MacKenzie
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0521769590, 9780521769594
• Length: 926 pages
• Subjects: Law / Environmental; Law / General; Law / International