community
Overview page. Subjects: Social Sciences — Arts and Humanities.
Many sociological and anthropological definitions exist, but most tend to privilege some combination of small-scale, relative boundedness, strong affective ties, traditionalism, and...
The significance of nation states
in Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction
October 2017; p ublished online October 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: International Environmental Law. 4089 words.
Environmental problems transcend the boundaries of nation states. That fact is a reminder of the physical reality of such problems, but—for good or ill—political and legal imagination is...
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Troubles
in Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction
October 2017; p ublished online October 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: International Environmental Law. 1225 words.
Environmental problems are the troubles of politics, economics, and philosophy. They are often bitter troubles, revealing deep divisions in societies over how life should be lived. These...
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Community of Pyrga through the President of the Community and the local authority of Pyrga and ors v Republic of Cyprus through the Council of Ministers and ors, Interim decision, Case no 671/1991, ILDC 1790 (CY 1991), (1991) CLR 3498, 7th November 1991, Supreme Court [Sup Ct]
Legal Material. Subjects: International Environmental Law; Public International Law; International Law; Law. 1369 words.
Whether the right to life—as protected by the Cyprus Constitution—could be interpreted in light of international instruments so as to encompass a right to the environment.
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Aboriginal Title
Reference Entry. Subjects: International Environmental Law; Public International Law; International Law; Law. 6197 words.
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Precautionary Approach/Principle
Reference Entry. Subjects: International Environmental Law; Public International Law; International Law; Law. 3794 words.
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Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, ICJ GL No 95, [1996] ICJ Rep 226, ICGJ 205 (ICJ 1996), 8th July 1996, International Court of Justice [ICJ]
Legal Material. Subjects: International Environmental Law; Public International Law; International Law; Law. 156064 words.
Whether the threat or use of nuclear weapons was in any circumstances permitted in international law.
Whether it would be lawful in the extreme circumstances of self-defence in...
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Beanal v Freeport-McMoran Incorporated and Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold Incorporated, Appeal judgment, 197 F.3d 161 (5th Cir. 1999), ILDC 1449 (US 1999), 29th November 1999, Court of Appeals (5th Circuit) [5th Cir.]
Legal Material. Subjects: International Environmental Law; Public International Law; International Law; Law. 5383 words.
Whether the Alien Tort Statute (‘ATS’) provided US federal district courts with subject matter jurisdiction over claims asserting violations of international environmental law committed by...
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Mayaguezanos por la Salud y el Ambiente and ors v United States, Appeal Judgment, Case No 99-1412, 198 F.3d 297 (1st Cir. 1999), ILDC 1058 (US 1999), 20th December 1999, Court of Appeals (1st Circuit) [1st Cir.]
Legal Material. Subjects: International Environmental Law; Public International Law; International Law; Law. 6230 words.
Whether a shipment of vitrified high-level nuclear waste from France to Japan, declared to be practically irrecoverable, was governed by the US-EURATOM Agreement, and thus required the...
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Compliance
Reference Entry. Subjects: International Environmental Law; Public International Law; International Law; Law. 20034 words.
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Dispute Concerning Access to Information Under Article 9 of the OSPAR Convention, Ireland v United Kingdom, Final Award, (2003) XXIII RIAA 59, (2003) 42 ILM 1118, ICGJ 377 (PCA 2003), 2nd July 2003, Permanent Court of Arbitration [PCA]
Legal Material. Subjects: International Environmental Law; Public International Law; International Law; Law. 40340 words.
Whether the United Kingdom request regarding the Tribunal’s lack of jurisdiction and the inadmissibility of claims should be upheld.
Whether Ireland’s claims of information under...
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