Oxford LibGuides: Environmental Law: International law

Online resources for international environmental law

The following list is just a selection, starting with resource which require an Oxford SSO for remote acces, before moving on to some websites on the free web.

The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law by Lavanya Rajamani (Editor); Jacqueline Peel (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 9780198849155
Publication Date: 2nd edn, 2021
Print copy is in the Reserve Collection KC243.OXF 2021 if preferred.

Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law (MPEIL)

Alternative names: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) ; Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro)

The Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law combines the fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) (originally published in print between 1991 and 2001) with the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro) which has been published (online only) since September 2019. The peer-reviewed articles in both works are updated and added to monthly.

Yearbook of international environmental law

Online resources freely available to all with access to the internet

UNEP's DELC
UN Audio Visual Library of International Law: Lecture Series
Official website. Growing library of lectures by eminent scholars - grouped by subject area which you can select in the left hand column. The mini-lecture stream is decided to give you an overview of the topic as a whole.
It is worth clicking on Read More for Related Materials
IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature
IUCN: Library of Digitized Materials
Free resource. "IUCN has one of the world’s most comprehensive ranges of authoritative publications, reports, guidelines and databases for conservation and sustainable development. We publish or co-author more than 100 books and major assessments every year, along with hundreds of other reports, documents and guidelines.

You can access the complete collection of digitized IUCN publications and grey literature here"
CIEL: Center for International Environmental Law
Official website. Makes library of publications freely available.

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With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva, Switzerland, CIEL’s team of attorneys, policy experts, and support staff works to provide legal counsel and advocacy, policy research, and capacity building across our three program areas: Climate & Energy, Environmental Health, and People, Land, & Resources.
European Commission (DG Environment)
Official website: sections include both strategy and law
ASEAN Environment
Official website. Recognising the importance of environmental cooperation for sustainable development and regional integration, ASEAN has since 1977 cooperated closely in promoting environmental cooperation among its member states. ASEAN cooperation on the environment is currently guided by the ASCC Blueprint 2025 which envisions an ASEAN Community that engages and benefits the peoples and is inclusive, sustainable, resilient, and dynamic. Guided by the Vision, the ASEAN cooperation on environment particularly focuses on the following key result areas under the characteristic Sustainable of the ASCC Blueprint 2025.
World Economic Forum: Environment and Natural Resource Security
The World Economic Forum was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests as an International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
EPI: Environmental Performance Index
Produced by CIESIN and Yale University’s Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP), in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy
Oxfam: Publications
Free resource. eg includes climate change
ClientEarth
Activist lawyers with mission "We use law as a tool to mend the relationship between human societies and the Earth. We work in Europe and beyond, bringing together law, science and policy to create practical solutions to key environmental challenges."
Environmental Justice Foundation
"Our dedicated team of researchers and campaigners works across the globe, in some of the world’s toughest and most remote countries to shine an international spotlight on the environmental and human rights abuses that too often go under the radar.

Founded by Steve Trent and Juliette Williams in the UK in 2000, EJF currently has 30 members of staff, with teams in Côte d'Ivoire, Germany, Ghana, Liberia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand and the UK. Our programmes operate across the European Union, Asia and West Africa and as well as in the USA and at a global level."
EarthData
Website making "NASA's free and open Earth science data interactive, interoperable, and accessible for research and societal benefit both today and tomorrow."
Basic guide to international environmental legal research
Free resource. Globalex guide with frequent updates

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