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The Use of ‘Macro’ Legal Analysis in the Understanding and Development of Global Environmental Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2016

Stephen J. Turner
Stephen J. Turner*
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Lincoln University, Law School, Lincoln (United Kingdom). Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

This article examines the manner in which ‘macro’ legal analysis can potentially assist in overcoming some of the issues that are faced in the understanding and development of global environmental governance (GEG). It argues that the analysis of law through separate and distinct disciplines – such as environmental law, trade law, corporate law, and human rights law – results in what this article refers to as ‘micro’ legal analysis. As such, it contends that this can have the effect of creating obstacles in the development of coherent and effective legal and policy choices related to the protection of the environment. It illustrates these arguments with examples of practical problems that have arisen from the separation of legal issues in practice and provides the theoretical underpinnings, based on the critique of international lawyers, for the application of ‘macro’ legal analysis. In other words, it argues for a form of analysis that would consider the entire range of relevant legal disciplines in a unitary process. It then provides a methodology for the development and application of ‘macro’ legal analysis in relation to environmental issues. Finally, it considers the potential that this approach could have within the field of GEG and comments on the implications that it could have for the way in which lawyers are trained in the future.

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Global environmental governanceMacro legal analysisMicro legal analysisInternational environmental lawNon-state actorsLegal training
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , July 2017 , pp. 237 - 257
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The author would like to thank Duncan French, Christy Shucksmith and two anonymous TEL reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article. All views expressed in this article and all errors remain those of the author.

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120 E.g., the initiatives of the GRI, n. 89 above, and FSC, n. 87 above.

121 Questions for further thought include: How would it be possible to determine what the desired outcome for the environment should be, based on scientific evidence? How would this type of analysis be linked to other ‘non-legal’ policy considerations in the development of renewed strategies for global environmental governance?

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