This article is a report on the sixty-fifth meeting of the International Whaling Commission in 2014. The author discusses the important results of this meeting, the first since the Commission moved to biennial meetings, ...

While scholars express a range of concerns about the use of private property to manage natural resources, an enduring counter-tradition within our idea of private property provides a principled basis for ameliorating or ...

Questions have been raised on what role the knowledge provided by sustainability science actually plays in the transition to sustainability and what role it may play in the future. In this paper we investigate different ...

This article seeks to explain and explore the concept of bodily integrity. The concept is often elided with autonomy in the case law and the academic literature. It argues that bodily integrity is non-reducible to the ...

This article concerns the Unit Titles Act 2010 (NZ). It considers a review of this Act being undertaken by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. It suggests that the minimalist regulatory philosophy adopted ...

As a consequence of the rule against penalties, contractual clauses with a penal character are unenforceable. The rule has recently undergone significant revision in both the United Kingdom and Australia, following decisions ...

This article is a book review of Gitanjali Nain Gill’s book Environmental Justice in India: The National Green Tribunal. The author concludes that this work provides a sound basis for further research into environmental ...

Specialist environment courts and tribunals (SECs) are, in the main, reflective of highly dynamic forms of adjudication, mixing judicial forms with powers more traditionally found in the executive. However, despite their ...

This article is a summary of the proceedings of the international symposium ‘Environmental Adjudication in the 21st Century,’ held in Auckland, New Zealand in April 2017. The symposium was organised by a research group ...