GW Law Library: Library Guides: Global & Comparative Environmental Law: Books, Treatises & Other Publications

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Books

Additional titles on comparative environmental law can be found using JACOB, GW Law Library's catalog.

Implementing Climate Change Policy: Designing and Deploying Net Zero Carbon Governance by Ottavio Quirico; Walter Baber (Editor)
Provides an analysis of the implementation of climate change policies worldwide to assess whether they are meeting the aims set out in the 'Paris Agreement'. The first part compares climate policies employed by the EU, the US, Latin America, Russia, China, the Middle East, and Africa. The second part explores ways of improving key regulatory mechanisms to increase the effectiveness of greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation measures.
International Law for Energy and the Environment by Patricia D. Park
Discusses how international and national legislation now requires the energy sector to focus more on sustainability and the circular economy in response to new policies at both international and national levels.
Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability by Santos Silva, Marta, editor, et al.
Authors present case study examples from twenty countries in Europe and beyond and discuss a wide range of issues including new property law and consumer law paradigms, the use of legal tech for promoting sustainable property management, strategies for fighting planned obsolescence, and eco-design.
Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism by Melanie Murcott
Discusses a legal theory of transformative environmental constitutionalism as a novel framework within which courts could adjudicate environmental law disputes, developing law for the Anthropocene's global struggles.

Treatises

Treatises, written by legal scholars and practitioners, provide current, in-depth analysis and commentary on an area of environmental law.

Comparative Environmental Law and Regulation
Analyzes key environmental laws, regulations, and implementation systems of more than 60 countries.
Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law
v. 1. Climate Change Law
v. 2. Decision Making in Environmental Law
v. 3. Biodiversity and Nature Protection Law
v. 4. Compliance and Enforcement of Environmental Law
v. 5. Multilateral Environmental Treaties
v. 6. Principles of Environmental Law
v. 7. Human Rights and the Environment
v. 8. Policy Instruments in Environmental Law
v. 9. Energy Law, Climate Change and the Environment
v. 10. Water Law
v. 11. Trade and Environmental Law
v. 12. Chemical Risk Governance
New Directions in the Law of the Sea: Regional and National Developments
Provides a comprehensive guide to the implementation of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea at the regional and national levels.
Space Law
Coverage includes treaties and agreements as well as national laws and policies relating to space law.

Other Publications

Hague Academy Collected Courses Online
(HeinOnline)
Online version of the Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, "an encyclopaedic publication on private and international law." Provides online access to 320 volumes spanning over 80 years of the history of international law produced by the Hague Academy of International Law.
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
Current, online version of the print Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Written by over 650 scholars and practitioners from around the world and edited by a team from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Includes more than 700 new topics, not covered in print edition, as well as access to the Oxford Law Citator. Updated quarterly.

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