ABOUT

Most environmental problems are transboundary in nature with one State’s policies and practices often resulting in environmental change elsewhere. Individual environmental regimes – local, national, regional or international – cannot be studied in isolation from one another. LEAD Journal seeks to fill the need for a comparative approach to environmental law. LEAD Journal is the only journal to adopt such a comparative perspective on environmental law issues from a North-South perspective. Its timely and incisive analysis of the experiences of different countries and of the interplay between different environmental regimes aids the development of more beneficial and fitting environmental approaches and procedures at both international and national level. In keeping with its comparative focus, it regularly publishes important environmental legislations and documents from regional and national bodies.

Further, LEAD Journal is the only international law journal to provide a forum for analysis of environmental regimes in developing countries and for examination of North-South dimensions in the development and implementation of environmental law. It will provide perspectives from both developed and developing countries.

Bearing in mind the principles of “sustainable development”, LEAD Journal 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 is pioneering in its attempt to lay equal emphasis on both theoretical and practical approaches to the study of environmental law and practice.