Special Issue "Advances in Environmental and Sustainability Law"

Guest Editor
Prof. Chris Tollefson
Hakai Chair in Environmental Law and Sustainability, Executive Director, Environmental Law Centre, Faculty of Law, P.O. Box 2400 STN CSC, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 3H7, Canada
Website: http://law.uvic.ca/faculty_staff/faculty_directory/tollefson.php
E-Mail: ctollef@uvic.ca
Interests: environmental and resource law/policy

Dear Colleagues,

Environmental law (or what is increasingly being referred to as ‘sustainability law’) is a relatively young discipline and area of practice. The approaching anniversary of the Earth Summit and genesis of the Convention on Biological Diversity is an opportune time to ponder the lessons and insights about environmental law garnered over these last twenty years.

This Special Issue calls upon contributors to consider what advances have been made within environmental law since the Earth Summit that may provide a basis for the further development and elaboration of environmental law in the future.

For the purposes of this Issue an environmental law advance is conceived of in broad terms.  It may be:

• a legal principle, policy or practice;
• a mode or model of regulation;
• a judicial doctrine or decision; or
• an institution or governance arrangement.

To qualify, however, the advance in question must involve a clear departure from existing practice or orthodoxy that has emerged -- and/or whose utility or value to environmental law has gained recognition -- since 1992.

Each of the articles profiled in this issue must ‘make the case’ for the advance they claim, and offer an analysis of how and why it merits this designation. Manuscripts may draw upon sub-national, national, regional or international exemplars.  Submissions that feature a comparative assessment of competing approaches to environmental regulation, adjudication or legal practice are especially encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Chris Tollefson
Guest Editor

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Laws is an international peer-reviewed Open Access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. For the first couple of issues the Article Processing Charge (APC) will be waived for well-prepared manuscripts. English correction and/or formatting fees of 250 CHF (Swiss Francs) will be charged in certain cases for those articles accepted for publication that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.

• advances in environmental law
• environmental law & lessons learned
• environmental law since the Earth Summit
• environmental law – a 20 year retrospective