Beate Sjåfjell (University of Oslo - Faculty of Law; College of Europe - European Legal Studies Department; EUSFIL Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence) has posted From Sustainability in Law to Sustainability Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This thought piece sketches out a preliminary conceptualisation of ‘sustainability law’, as an emerging, interdisciplinary new field. The aim is to stimulate debate on how legal scholars can respond constructively to the fragmentation, silo thinking and lack of policy coherence that is hindering regulation for the fundamental transformation to sustainability. These barriers to change are evident also in the unprecedented sustainability-oriented initiatives of the European Union (EU). In this paper, I concentrate on EU law and regulation of business as my examples throughout, while sustainability law is relevant to all jurisdictions, all areas of law and all societal issues.
