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Legislation and the Stress of Environmental Problems
Current Legal Problems ( IF 1.529 ) Pub Date : 2021-10-05 , DOI: 10.1093/clp/cuab010
Eloise Scotford

For lawyers and legal scholars, legislation seems a known quantity—a relatively permanent, public expression of democratic processes in parliamentary democracies and of the rule of law. This ‘knowable’ character can however be misleading, particularly in the field of environmental law. This article examines why research into environmental legislation is challenging but critically important. A short history of UK environmental law provides salient examples of political stress and highly complex, unsettled, even unknowable, environmental legislation. Collective environmental problems demand legislative responses in shaping individual behaviours and guiding social policies—but knowing how to craft these responses and how to evaluate the resulting legislation is often uncharted legal territory. Navigating that legislative terrain is a vital task for legal scholars and practitioners, particularly to investigate the serious legal problems that can arise from its construction, including poor legibility, legal fragmentation, and concerns about compatibility with the rule of law.

中文翻译:

立法和环境问题的压力

对于律师和法律学者来说,立法似乎是一个已知的数量——议会民主国家中民主进程和法治的相对永久、公开的表达。然而,这种“可知”特征可能会产生误导,尤其是在环境法领域。本文探讨了为什么对环境立法的研究具有挑战性但至关重要。英国环境法的简短历史提供了政治压力和高度复杂、不稳定甚至不可知的环境立法的显着例子。集体环境问题需要在塑造个人行为和指导社会政策方面做出立法回应——但知道如何制定这些回应以及如何评估由此产生的立法往往是未知的法律领域。
更新日期:2021-10-05
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