Legal reasoning in environmental law : a study of structure, form and language / Douglas Fisher.

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Cheltenham, Gloucestershire : Edward Elgar, c2013.

Edition:

1st edition

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83987

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Author:

Fisher, Douglas.

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Subject:

Environmental law.

Environmental law, International.

Law -- Methodology.

Contents:

Part I. Reasoning in a legal context

1. Law, language and reasoning

2. Forms of legal argumentation

3. The methodology of legal decision-making

Part II. Legal reasoning in international environmental law

4. Rules of competence and limitation : territorial resources

5. Rules of limitation : common resources

6. Internationally accepted rules : the normative framework

7. Internationally accepted rules : implemetation measures

8. Judicially constructed rules : biological resources

9. Judicially constructed rules : common resources

Part III. Legal reasoning in international environmental law

10. Rules in the form of human rights

11. Rules in instrumental form

12. Rules in the form of constitutional rights

13. Rules in the form of environmental rights

14. The structure, form and language of statutory rules

15. Rules informing adjudication

16. Strategic rules informing decisions

17. Strategic rules regulating decisions

Part IV. Conclusion

18. Legal reasoning in environmental law.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781781008966

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Phys. description:

x, 478 p. : ill. ; 25 cm