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

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

Soil Security Concerns in the Era of Climate Change: An Assessment of African Union’s Legal Framework for Sustainable Soil Management and Implications for Combating Climate Change in Africa

by Gideon Fosoh Ngwome

Reflections on Stockholm, Decolonization, Restoration, and Global Ecological Governance

by John W. Head

RECENTLY PUBLISHED

Scoping the Potential Influence of Law on Terrestrially Located Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures

by Alexander Paterson

The Resource Tenure and Property Rights Conundrum in Zambia’s Natural Resource Management

by Makweti Sishekanu & Morgan Katati

Journey of Agricultural Produce Market Committee Law in Bihar: An Inquiry into the Implications of Repeal of Bihar APMC Law

by Gopal Krishna

Common but Differentiated Responsibility at What Cost? Investment Law as a Barrier to Climate Ambition and Achieving Zero Routine Gas Flaring in Africa

by Jenny Hall & Louis Koen

Striving for Good Environmental Information: Civic Sentinels of Oil Pollution in the South of the North

by Anna Berti Suman

Rights over Mineral Resources: Mapping Recent Judicial Trends

by Roopa Madhav

A Non-Discrimination Approach to the Right to Land of Indigenous Peoples against a Sui Generis approach: Is It Possible in International Human Rights Law?

by Kaito Suzuki

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;

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).