“jane holder”

Environmental assessment has long been a key legal instrument of environmental law. It now governs decision making in many areas relating to environmental protection: pollution control, land use, conservation, and policy making. This volume analyses the development and current state of this mechanis... More

The Current Legal Problems lecture series and annual volume was established over fifty five years ago at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, and has long been recognized as a major reference point for legal scholarship. The continuing strength of Current Legal Problems is its representat... More

This edited collection analyzes the appropriate balance between conservation and development and the place for participation and popular protest in environmental assessment. Examining the relationship between law, environmental governance and the regulation of decision-making, this volume takes a re... More

This book explores the relationship between law and geography, particularly in relation to globalisation - of law, commerce, environmental change and society - which renders relations between the local and the global more significant. The book is structured according to conceptual frames - boundarie... More

Current Legal Problems was established after the Second World War as a series of public lectures on law. It is now regarded as the most significant such series in the United Kingdom. Each year a wide range of edited texts are reproduced in the form of a volume. This year's is the 58th such volume. S... More

This book examines environmental law from a range of perspectives, emphasising the policy world from which environmental law is drawn and nourished. Those working within the discipline of environmental law need to engage with concepts and methods employed by disciplines other than law. The authors a... More

This, the 57th volume of Current Legal Problems, like its predecessors, explores a wide variety of issues. The contributions range across analytical jurisprudence, constitutional law, medical and legal ethics, private law, public law, international law and EC law. Subjects explored this year include... More

Emma, published in 1816, is the story of self-deception in Emma Woodhouse, an intelligent young woman, who believes she can manage other people's lives better than she does her own. In this attempt, she nearly messes up the life of her protege, young Harriet Smith. All, however, ends well.... More