The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (2^nd Ed.) Oxford Handbooks Series

The second edition of this leading reference work provides a comprehensive discussion of the dynamic and important field of international law concerned with environmental protection. It is edited by globally-recognised international environmental law scholars, Professor Lavanya Rajamani and Professor Jacqueline Peel, and features 67 chapters authored by 76 renowned experts in their fields. The Handbook discusses the key principles underpinning international environmental law, its relevant actors and tools, and rules applying in its substantive sub-fields such as climate law, oceans law, wildlife and biodiversity law, and hazardous substances regulation. It also explores the intersection of international environmental law with other areas of international law, such as those concerned with trade, investment, disaster, migration, armed conflict, intellectual property, energy, and human rights. The Handbook sets its discussion of international environmental law in the broader interdisciplinary context of developments in science, ethics, politics and economics, which inform the way in which environmental rules are made, implemented, and enforced. It provides an introduction to the foundations of international environmental law while also engaging with questions at the frontiers of research, teaching, and practice in the field, including the role of Global South perspectives, the contribution made by Earth jurisprudence, and the growing role of a diverse range of actors from indigenous peoples to business and industry. Like the first edition, this second edition of the Handbook is an essential reference text for all engaged with environmental issues at the international level and the applicable governance and regulatory structures.

Professor Lavanya Rajamani is a leading, internationally-recognized expert in the field of international environmental law, in particular climate change law. Her scholarship focuses on a range of issues relating to environmental treaty-making, interpretation, and implementation. Her last co-authored book, International Climate Change Law (OUP, 2017) won an American Society of International Law book prize, and she delivered a prestigious special course at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2018 on 'Innovation and Experimentation in the International Climate Change Regime'. Her scholarly work is informed by her engagement in the UN climate regime, as a negotiator, expert interlocutor and legal advisor to the UNFCCC, and to national governments. She was part of the UNFCCC core drafting and advisory team for the 2015 Paris Agreement. Professor Jacqueline Peel is a leading, internationally-recognised expert in the field of environmental and climate change law. Her scholarship on these topics encompasses international, transnational, and national dimensions, as well as interdisiplinary aspects of the law/science relationship in the environmental field and risk regulation. She has published extensively on these topics and also contributed to international policy bodies working in the field such as the International Law Association, International Bar Association, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III for the Sixth Assessment Report.