Insightful and personal account of the development of modern environmental law by one if its key protagonists
1. Early Legal Environmental Activism
2. The Windscale Inquiry
3. The Emergence of Environmental Lawyers in the UK
4. Environmental Law as an Academic Discipline: Early Sparks
5. Practising Environmental Law as a Barrister
6. Influencing Public Policy: Parliamentary Select Committees
7. A National Environmental Agency
8. Academic Environmental Law Comes of Age
9. Swirling Worlds: The Royal Commission on Environmental
Pollution
10. Environmental Courts and Tribunals
11. Reforming Regulatory Sanctions
12. The European Dimension
13. Brexit and Environmental Law
Richard Macrory is a barrister and Emeritus Professor of Environmental Law at University College London.
This book tells from Richard's unique perspective through first
hand accounts the history of modern environmental law as it grew to
become a respected discipline. Few if any people have had quite
such a lasting influence on environmental law. Politicians come and
go but Richard has remained a resilient shaping influence.
*UKELA e-law*
Richard Macrory is absolutely the right person to give this account
of how the environmental law that we now take for granted developed
over the last 50 years: he played a substantial role in shaping it
... Who is this book for? It is academic enough for lawyers, with
only a few eyelid-drooping moments of intense legal analysis for
non-lawyer readers. It is informative for those who care to see how
environmental law has developed, and delightful for those who
treasure autobiography. Throughout, the Macrory humour sneaks in,
often disguised heavily in weighty points of law.
*Civil Service World*
This is a remarkable book. It is not a textbook. It is a
recollection of a lifetime’s work in environmental law, but it is
very much more. The remembered and collected detail is
extraordinary. The reader can see environmental law growing over 50
years, with successes and failures. And perhaps the most useful of
all, Professor Richard Macrory sets the reader thinking about where
we go from here. The stuff is all here, the text is clear,
concentrated reading, thought and reflection are required.
*Journal of Planning & Environment Law*
It is beyond dispute that the world faces growing environmental
problems — many highlighted in this book — but this is not a
'misery memoir'. Professor Macrory wears his knowledge lightly, and
writes well and entertainingly. He has produced a work with
accessibility as its hallmark. That ought to ensure its appeal to
both lawyer and general reader, and guarantee its success.
*Graya*
An enlightening and compelling account of the history of modern
environmental law and its growth, from the unique perspective of
one of the founding fathers of the subject.
*Rivista Giuridica dell'Ambiente (Bloomsbury translation)*
This is an outstanding book. It deserves to be read widely. Those
of us who are privileged to teach environmental law, and to
influence the next generation of environmental lawyers, will find
this book of immense value.
*Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal*
The account is interesting, well written … and is an entertaining
read.
*Journal of Environmental Law*
An illuminating and empathetic account of a formative era in
British environmental law by one of the founding fathers of the
subject.
*Liz Fisher, Professor of Environmental Law, University of
Oxford*
Environmental law supremo ... The tone is moderate. The mixture is
dizzying.
*Richard Gordon QC, Brick Court Chambers*
Institutional memory is notoriously lacking among policy makers –
ministerial and official – in Whitehall. So, as the UK gets ready
to “take back control” of environmental law from the EU, Richard
Macrory provides invaluable insights into how that law
developed.
*Jill Rutter, Institute for Government*
Magisterial and magnificent, the father of environmental law in the
UK on its making.
*Philippe Sands QC, Professor of Law, University College London*
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