What counts as environmental law adjudication? Or to put it differently; how do we decide which cases demand attention in an environmental law journal, such as this one? Is it the relevance of environmental legislation to the court’s legal reasoning, or would the mere reference to environmental problems and their related laws do? In either case, the net is cast wide. Environmental disputes are undoubtedly on the rise, and judges are increasingly called on to resolve these in courtrooms around the globe.1¹ Our point, however, does not concern the speed or the surge of environmental law jurisprudence but rather the drawing of its outer limits. Take HS2,2² as an example. Here, the Supreme Court was asked to consider some of the leading decisions of the Court of Justice of the EU on the Environmental Impact Assessment and the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) directives,3³ but the case, perhaps more significantly, contributed to the contouring of British constitutional law, and its relationship to the EU legal order.4⁴ Is then HS2 an environmental or a constitutional law case? Obviously, we should not need to make this too sharp a distinction, especially as environmental disputes commonly cut across legal fields. But how we label cases matters in how we understand the nature of the environmental dispute at play. Given the polycentricity of environmental problems and the tendency of environmental disputes to transcend legal fields, we gain much by moving away from studies of cases in silos of distinct legal sub-disciplines towards an approach grounded in legal interdisciplinarity. And so, as a new Editorial team for the analysis section, we invited different legal perspectives on the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) decision in Friends of the Earth (FOE).5⁵

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地球之友与法律跨学科：分析编辑介绍

什么算作环境法裁决？或者换一种说法；我们如何确定哪些案例需要在环境法期刊中引起关注，例如本刊？是环境立法与法院的法律推理的相关性，还是仅仅提及环境问题及其相关法律就可以？在任何一种情况下，网都撒得很宽。环境纠纷无疑正在上升，越来越多的法官被要求在全球法庭上解决这些问题。^{1 1}然而，我们的观点不涉及环境法判例的速度或激增，而是其外部界限的划定. 取HS2 ,2 ²作为一个例子。在这里，最高法院被要求考虑欧盟法院关于环境影响评估和战略环境评估 (SEA) 指令的一些主要裁决，3 ³但该案或许更重要的是，有助于英国宪法的轮廓及其与欧盟法律秩序的关系。4 ⁴那么是HS2环境案件还是宪法案件？显然，我们不需要把这两者区别得太明显，尤其是环境纠纷通常跨越法律领域。但是，我们如何标记案例对于我们如何理解正在发挥作用的环境纠纷的性质很重要。鉴于环境问题的多中心性和环境纠纷超越法律领域的趋势，我们从研究不同法律子学科孤岛中的案例转向以法律跨学科为基础的方法，从中获益良多。因此，作为分析部分的新编辑团队，我们邀请了对英国最高法院 (UKSC) 在地球之友( FOE ) 中的裁决的不同法律观点。5 ⁵