‘Legal Perspectives on Sustainability’ (Bristol University Press, 2020) brings together Law School academics with different expertise who research, write, and teach in the field of sustainability to provide a critical exploration of sustainability from a variety of legal perspectives.
Offering analysis of sustainability at land and sea alongside trade, labour and corporate governance perspectives, this book articulates important debates about the role of law. From impacts on local societies to domestic sustainable development policies and major international goals, it considers multiple jurisdictional levels.
Divided into four parts, the book begins with an analysis by Dr Margherita Pieraccini and Professor Tonia Novitz of sustainability and law through history as well as the path ahead.
Part Two of the book features research on sustainable corporate governance by Professor Charlotte Villiers and Dr Georgina Tsagas, and by Nina Boeger, while Part Three examines trade, with chapters by Dr Clair Gammage and Professor Tonia Novitz.
The final part of the book focuses on places, with research on land ownership and use by Emeritus Professor Chris Willmore and marine conservation law by Dr Margherita Pieraccini.
By considering sustainability through different legal sources and fields the book presents an interdisciplinary, comprehensive analysis of the way in which sustainability discourses push certain legal boundaries, and the way the law itself pushes sustainability in multiple directions.
Find out more about the publication on the Bristol University Press website.