environmental-law

Against the backdrop of the global “human-rights turn” in environmental protection, incorporating environmental human rights into China’s Eco-Environmental Code to strengthen humanistic care is highly significant. From a human-rights perspective, this paper elaborates on the unique advantages of such a perspective in highlighting the humanistic dimension of environmental law. Adopting legal-dogma…

Analysis of recent departures from DOJ norms and the use of litigation and settlement as tools for advancing policy objectives.

Gurvinder Singh, Assistant Professor & Research Scholar, Department of Law, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa ABSTRACT Wetlands are among the most ecologically productive ecosystems on Earth, yet they remain among the most legally vulnerable in India. Despite hosting nearly 20% of the world's Ramsar-designated sites, India continues to lose its natural wetlands at an alarming rate due to u…

Anindita Saha, Research Scholar, Faculty of Law, ICFAI University Dr. Zigisha Pujari, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, ICFAI University ABSTRACT Illegal trade in forest products and protected species has emerged as one of the most organised forms of environmental criminality in India. Increasing incidents of timber smuggling, poaching, trafficking of wildlife parts, illegal extraction of medi…

Aashi Bindal, BALLB, Vivekanand Education Society’s College of Law, Chembur, Mumbai “If you think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath while counting your money” - Professor Guy McPherson ABSTRACT The Kudremukh mining project represents one of the most significant environmental conflicts in India between economic development and ecological conservation. Loca…

Swathi Shetty, BALLB, SDM Law College Mangalore, D.K., Karnataka ABSTRACT The increase in commercialization and human exploration has resulted massive rise in space debris in the outer space. The drastic failure has been observed, to protect outer space from space junk created in the name of exploration. At the same time, the efforts of space agencies to remove the debris are not sufficient enoug…

_Zenodo_. 2026This paper presents a legal-civilizational prosecution of Xi Jinping's doctrine of "ecological civilization" (shengtai wenming), which he has elevated into a defining claim of his rule and written into the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. It does not measure China against Western liberal or humanitarian standards, which the state has learned to deflect as foreign impo…

Interest in marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) has risen in the last decade as the deadlines to meet global climate temperature goals draw closer. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tells us that the 1.5°C and 2°C temperature targets outlined in the Paris Agreement require net zero emissions, which in turn requires some use […]

Lawmakers cite studies linking weedkiller to Parkinson’s as pressure mounts for a wider US ban Vermont is the first US state to ban the weedkilling pesticide paraquat, backed by lawmakers who cited concerns about research showing the chemical substantially increases the risk of the incurable brain ailment known as Parkinson’s disease . Phil Scott, the governor, signed the legislation on Tuesday. …

Recommended Citation Sophie Ballah, Enemies to Lovers: An Unsuspecting Friendship in the Journey to Save the Endangerment Finding, 94 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1157 () Available at: https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/vol94/iss4/7 Included in Environmental Law Commons, Jurisprudence Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Legislation Commons, Natural Resources Law Commons, Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law Commons, Sup…

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Anurag Lilhare, Government New Law College, Indore ABSTRACT International environmental law has moved from a reactive model of liability toward a preventive model centred on environmental impact assessment, due diligence, cooperation and reparation. This paper examines the legal architecture governing activities that may cause significant transboundary environmental harm. It argues that a transbo…

C. Vignesh, LL.M., University of Madras ABSTRACT This paper argues that the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment has attained, or is rapidly crystallizing into, the status of a peremptory norm (jus cogens) under general international law. Drawing on the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969), the International Law Commission's Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms of Ge…

Mr. Samir Prasad Ram, LL.M., The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS). Dr. Rashmi Rekha Baug, Assistant Professor, National Law University, Odisha. ABSTRACT International criminal law has traditionally protected the environment only when environmental destruction is connected to human suffering, armed conflict, or attacks on civilian populations. This anthropocentric struc…

Karun Kumar P, LLM, Department of Legal Studies, University of Madras ABSTRACT The intersection of armed conflict and environmental degradation presents one of the most pressing yet underexplored frontiers of contemporary international law. Armed conflicts have historically caused devastating and often irreversible damage to ecosystems, natural resources, and the broader environment. Despite the …

Sakshi Soni & Vansh Chouhan, Government New Law College, Indore. ABSTRACT The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework in India has traversed a remarkable arc from purely voluntary guidance to a quasi-mandatory disclosure regime. This paper suggests that, despite the quasi-mandatory characteristics of the current ESG regime in India, there persists an underlying tension between t…

Mrunmai Kulkarni, Dr. Sujata Arya & Shuruthi J ABSTRACT Pollutants in the air have now become the backbone of an environmental, constitutional and public health issue in India, especially in the Delhi-NCR area. This study is a critical analysis of judicial trends in Air pollution litigation in India with a focus on Courts and law as a protection of the right’s to “clean air” as guaranteed und…

EPA outlines effort to kill Biden-era rules as critics condemn RFK Jr and Lee Zeldin’s ‘hocus pocus’ The Trump administration has announced a plan to kill Biden-era drinking water limits on four Pfas “forever chemicals”, and to delay the implementation of standards for two other compounds. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing two separate rules to delay and rescind the limits. The rul…

Pankhuri Mishra, LL.M. (Environment and Natural Resources Law), TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi ABSTRACT: At the time of making of the Indian Constitution, one of the primary debates that came up before the Constituent Assembly was the distribution of powers between the centre and the states. While defining ‘federalism’ in context of India, one can easily ascertain that it has not been…