Research Agenda for Environmental Law

Edited by Josephine van Zeben, Chair of Transnational Law, Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Italy and Chris Hilson, Professor, School of Law, University of Reading, UK

• Contents1 Introduction to A Research Agenda forEnvironmental Law 1Josephine van Zeben and Chris HilsonPART I ENVIRONMENTAL LAW THINKING2 The Drama of the Anthropocene: Despair andHope in Legal Scholarship 9Emily Barritt3 The Rights of Nature and Environmental Law:A Developing Relationship 23Yaffa Epstein4 Animal Rights and Environmental Law 35Anne Lansink5 Using Biocultural Rights to Rethink EnvironmentalLaw Through Human Rights 47Giulia Sajeva6 Regenerative Approaches and Environmental Law:Beyond Sustainability? 59Chris Hilson and Annalisa Savaresi7 Polluters Pay and the Double Disembedding:Overcoming the Unholy Relation Between PrivateLaw and Environmental Law ‘Beyond the State’ 73Marija Bartl and Candida LeonePART II NEW ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REALITIES8 Politics and Expertise: New EnvironmentalTargets in English Environmental Law 89Maria Lee9 Climate Assemblies: Situating a Legal Experimentation 103Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli10 The Resurgence of Sovereignty: EnvironmentalImplications and Pathways for Future Research 117Bruce R. Huber11 Business as (Un)Usual at the Frontiers of ClimateChange Litigation 129Rebekkah Markey-Towler and Jacqueline Peel12 Corporate Environmental Due Diligence andValue Chains 143Klaas H. Eller13 Sustainable Finance: Green Taxonomies asInstruments of System Change? 157Nathan de Arriba-Sellier14 Centring the City in Environmental Law 171Anneke Smit15 PFAS Are Forever: Regulating Chronic Toxicity inOur Living Environment 189Josephine van ZebenPART III SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATIONS16 Degrowth: An Idea for Our Time 205Gareth Davies17 Making a Case for Radical Circular EconomyLegal Research 219Feja Lesniewska18 Environmental Law and Technology: A ResearchRoadmap 233Aude S. Epstein19 New Approaches in Nature Conservation: TheLegal Nexus Between Rewilding and NatureConservation in the EU 247Floor Fleurke20 Colonial Legacies and Decolonial Futures:Environmental Law and Indigenous Resistance in India 261Arpitha Kodiveri21 The Futures of Environmental Law 275Josephine van Zeben and Chris HilsonIndex 287

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