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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 15, 2020 erstellt
Beschreibung:
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, 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. This has been illustrated vividly in the need to create new legislation for UK environmental law in the wake of the UK’s departure from the European Union. Navigating this complex legislative terrain is a vital task for legal scholars and practitioners, highlighting the importance of what we do as legal researchers and how we do it