Inaugural lecture of Professor James Harrison – scope of environmental law
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Credit: Edinburgh Law School
Edinburgh Law School’s Professor James Harrison is to deliver his inaugural lecture on a fundamental question of environmental legal scholarship: how much environmental protection can we expect environmental law to deliver?
Whilst protection of the environment is undoubtedly the underlying objective of much environmental legislation, environmental law rarely, if ever, offers absolute protection.
Often, environmental legislation is instead concerned with setting out the processes and parameters for determining the level of protection that should be offered in particular contexts, whilst also recognising that other social and economic interests may need to be brought into the balance.
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