Environmental Law or Environmental Protection Law? A Comparative Legal Analysis

Policy and Environmental Law Series Peruvian Society for Environmental Law

Do we need an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing (ABS) ? The Seventh Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 2003) to be held in February 2004 will probably give a political answer to this question. However, we would hope there is time for further legal, technical and economic analysis of this proposal before a definit...

Environmental Radiological Protection in the Law A Baseline Survey

The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population. The Organisati...

Environmental Law and Policy

The Regulatory Policy Program at the Center for Business and Government provides an environment in which to develop and test leading ideas on regulation and regulatory institutions. RPP's research aims to improve the global society and economy by understanding the impacts of regulation and creating better decisions about the design and implementation of regulatory strategies around the world. R...

Environmental Law: the Us Model

peremptory norms in international law; development or revolution of sources of international law (a comparative analysis of national legal systems)

contemporary international law introduces a notion of peremptory norms comparable to hierarchy of norms in national legal system. a jus cogens is a norm of international law considered so fundamental that it overrides all other sources of international law. a rule of jus cogens has a specific process of emergence that will be essentially different from other sources of international law which r...