Environmental Law: Text, Cases and Materials

Part I: The Basics

1: What is environmental law?

2: Understanding environmental problems

Part II: Legal Themes and Concepts

3: Private law

4: Public law

5: Criminal liability

6: Statutory liabilities and remedies

7: Courts

8: Principle and policy

9: Regulatory strategy

Part III: Legal Cultures

10: Environmental law in the legal culture of the United Kingdom

11: European Union environmental law

12: International environmental law

Part IV: Pollution Control

13: Pollution control permitting

14: Integrated pollution control

15: Water pollution

16: Waste regulation

17: Air quality law

18: Climate change law

Part V: Environmental Law and Environmental Protection

19: Planning law

20: Environmental impact assessment

21: Nature conservation

Elizabeth Fisher is a Professor of Environmental Law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford and is General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law. She has written widely on environmental law and was shortlisted for the OUP Law Teacher of the Year Award in 2011 and won the SLS Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2008.

Bettina Lange is an Associate Professor of Law and Regulation at the University of Oxford. Bettina has written widely on socio-legal aspects of environmental regulation. She teaches courses on environmental law, socio-legal research methods, and regulation.

Eloise Scotford is a Professor of Environmental Law at UCL and member of UCL's Centre of Law and the Environment. She is Analysis Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law and Associate Member of Landmark Chambers. She writes widely on environmental law and actively researches the legal treatment of environmental principles, air quality law, climate change governance, waste law, and legislative and adjudicative processes as they relate to the environment.