Jacqueline Peel

Science and Risk Regulation in International Law

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Produktbeschreibung

Using examples from biosafety to climate change, Jacqueline Peel examines the use and abuse of science in international risk regulation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 752g
• ISBN-13: 9780521768634
• ISBN-10: 0521768632
• Artikelnr.: 31194690

Autorenporträt

Dr Jacqueline Peel is an Associate Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on areas of domestic and international environmental law including climate change, the intersections between law and science, and the precautionary principle.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - science and risk regulation in international law
2. Global risk governance and its legitimacy
3. Scientific rationality and risk in international law
4. Competing risk regulatory paradigms: sound science and the precautionary principle
5. Science and WTO regulation of SPS risk
6. Case studies of science and risk regulation in international law
7. Democratising global risk governance
8. What role for science in international risk regulation?

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1. Introduction - science and risk regulation in international law; 2. Global risk governance and its legitimacy; 3. Scientific rationality and risk in international law; 4. Competing risk regulatory paradigms: sound science and the precautionary principle; 5. Science and WTO regulation of SPS risk; 6. Case studies of science and risk regulation in international law; 7. Democratising global risk governance; 8. What role for science in international risk regulation?

Rezensionen

'... [proposes] developments of the law in ways which have a clear practical import.' Christopher A. Thomas, International and Comparative Law Quarterly