is a peer-reviewed academic publication based in London and New Delhi and jointly managed by the University of London and the International Environmental Law Research Centre.
Since 2005, LEAD Journal (also known as the Law, Environment and Development Journal) publishes articles, case notes and documents of interest to professionals, practitioners, researchers, students and policy-makers in the field of international and regional environmental law and domestic environmental laws of developing countries. LEAD Journal emphasises a comparative approach to the study of environmental law and is the only journal in the field to carry a North-South focus. It is unique in providing perspectives from both developed and developing countries. Bearing in mind the principles of “sustainable development”, LEAD Journal also solicits writings which incorporate related concerns, such as human rights and trade, in the study of environmental management, thus adopting a contextual approach to the examination of environmental issues. LEAD Journal encourages scholarship which combine theoretical and practical approaches to the study of environmental law and practice.
CURRENT ISSUE
CURRENT ISSUE
Ripples of Conflict: Drivers and Resolutions of Water Resource Disputes – A Case Study of Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya
by David Njagi Ngonge, Dr. Kariuki Muigua & Dr. Elvin Nyukuri
Institutional and Regulatory Constraints of Governing Water in India: An Illustration through Groundwater Regulation and Pollution Abatement
by Prerna Yadav, Sruthi Pillai & NC Narayanan
Book Reviews
Advanced Introduction to International
Water Law
by Owen McIntyre
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
The Significance of Traditional Legal Framework in Regulating Groundwater Rights in Iran
by Seyedahmad Hosseini & Prerna Yadav
Legal Inquiry into Mechanisms for Addressing the “Black Soot” Problem in Rivers State, Nigeria
by Dr Paul Samuel Tamuno & Dr Uzuazo Etemire
Food and Land Policies amid the Agricultural Land Conversion in Indonesia
by Al Khanif & Fenny Tria Yunita
The Utility of Epidemiology Evidence in Resolving Compensation Quandary in Kenya: Case Study of Thange Oil Spill, Makueni County, Kenya
by Hannah Wamuyu, Collins Odote & Stephen Obiero
The Role of Environmental Law and Governance in Transformational Change to Address the Triple Planetary Crisis
by Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Balakrishna Pisupati, Aphrodite Smagadi, Allan Meso, Hyun Sung, Alvin Gachie
FOR AUTHORS
FOR AUTHORS
LEAD Journal will consider for publication manuscript submissions of original work. LEAD Journal specifically seeks to foster scholarship in following areas:
- Comparative approaches to the study of international environmental law, with a special emphasis on North-South issues;
- Regional environmental law regimes among developing countries;
- Implementation of international environmental law at regional and national levels;
- Influence of international environmental law on national and regional environmental law regimes, and cross-fertilisation;
- Cross-sectoral analysis in the study of environmental law, especially study of the relationship between trade and the environment, property rights and the environment, intellectual property and the environment, human rights and the environment;
- International & regional environment governance;
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OUR PARTNERS
LEAD Journal is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, EBSCO, Heinonline, Manupatra, Genamics JournalSeek, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Open J-Gate and Scopus.
LEAD Journal is managed by the Law, Environment and Development Centre (LEDC) from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC).