A Reader in Environmental Law

Bridget M. Hutter is Lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science

• Introduction: Socio-Legal Perspectives on Environmental Law: An Overview ; PART I : THEORETICAL APPROACHES ; 1. Economics and the Environment: A Study of Private Nuisance ; 2. Structural Bias in Regulatory Law Enforcement: The Case of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ; PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND SCIENCE ; 3. Holes in the Ozone Layer: A Global Environmental Controversy ; 4. Cross-National Differences in Policy Implementation ; PART III : GOVERNMENT REGULATION: IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT ; 5. Compliance Strategy ; 6. The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation: Towards a Unifying Framework ; 7. Can Social Science Explain Organizational Non-Compliance with Environmental Law? ; PART IV : ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ; 8. Regulation and In-Company Environmental Management in the Netherlands ; 9. Green Markets: Environmental Regulation by the Private Sector ; 10. Designing Smart Regulation ; PART V : INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ; 11. Sleeping with an Elephant: The American Influence on Canadian Environmental Policy ; 12. Towards a New Conception of the Environmental Competitiveness Relationship

Breadth of approach is reflected in the selection of the material... a series of readings which represent the development over 20 years or so of socio-legal analysis of environmental law - this itself being persuasively portrayed by Dr. Hutter in her introductory essay on the issue... this offering from Oxford University Press is a timely and useful bringing together of major socio-legal statements on the law. It deserves its place on academic bokshelves - and certainly on those of postgraduate students keen to broaden their initial doctrinal understanding of the law.