Sustainable Development Law

• Provides an important new law and policy perspective to address conflicts and overlaps between social, environmental, and economic law
• Comprehensive surveys of current developments including analysis of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development
• Cutting-edge agendas for future research on sustainable development
• Clearly structured with case studies and sources of further information for use in teaching sustainable development law

Readership: Scholars and students of public international law related to environment, development, human rights, trade and investment law, social and economic issues and politics, Policy Makers (Government Officials, Inter-Governmental Organisations, Non-Governmental Organisations), practitioners who serve these clients.

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, and Ashfaq Khalfan, Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law

"an essential read for anyone interested in the state of the global society" - Dr. Duncan French, University of Sheffield

"a stimulating and timely contribution to a vital debate" - D J Hughes, Environmental Law and Management, 17.5

H.E. Judge Christopher G. Weeramantry: Foreword
Biographies of the Authors and Contributors
Acknowledgements
About the CISDL
Introduction
I: The Foundations
1: Origins of the Sustainable Development Concept
2: Results of the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development
3: Sustainable Development in Policy and in Law
4: The Intersections of International Economic, Social and Environmental Law
II: The Principles
5: Principles of International Law Relating to Sustainable Development
III: The Practices
6: Case Studies of Innovative Instruments
7: General Observations from the Case Studies
8: Addressing Implementation Challenges
IV: The Prospects
9: with Markus W. Gehring: Sustainable International Trade, Investment, and Competition Law
10: with Carolyn Deere: ustainable International Natural Resources Law
11: with Sumudu Atapattu: International Human Rights and Poverty Law in Sustainable Development
12: with Maya Prabhu: International health and Sustainable Development Law
13: with Jorge Cabrera Medaglia and Kathryn Garforth: Sustainable International Biodiversity Law
14: with Xueman Wang: Sustainable International Climate Change Law
15: with Salim Nakhjavani and María Leichner Reynal: Crosscutting Issues in Sustainable Development Law
Conclusions
Tale of Treaties
Table of Declarations
Table of Cases
Recommended Resources
Index