Environment
One of the most important regulatory challenges of our time is how to manage the wide range of the public and private actors and actions that shape our social and natural environments. Doing so successfully requires an in-depth understanding of multiple connected, but at times contradictory, legal frameworks which have to balance a number of public and private interests of current, and future, generations across the globe.
Topics
Within our research theme, we specifically focus on these key areas:
- Climate change
- Pollution, pesticides and plastics
- Comparative environmental law
- Soils
- Biodiversity
- Environmental and climate justice
- Agri-environmental law
- Human health
- Energy law
- Animal law
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Research themes
Environment
We focus on the regulatory challenges of managing the wide range of the public and private actors and actions that shape our social and natural environments
Food systems
Law plays a crucial role in achieving food system policy goals and in managing the trade-offs and synergies between them.
Business and human rights
Legal frameworks seek to maintain economic growth while regulating corporate activities in the face of global political contestation and technological innovations.
Human rights and public health
Our research is driven by using human rights as a lens to explore how the language, ideas, and principles of human rights can inform the transformation towards a more just and more sustainable world.
Law Group
The Law Group, led by Louis Kotzé, focusses on legal solutions to social problems, including those studied in life sciences domains.