The Transnational Law Institute (TLI) is pleased to invite you to the launch of Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli's new book, The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press 2018). 

International environmental law is based on the will to avoid causing harm to the environment. Yet, the principle of prevention remains abstract and elusive in terms of exactly what is required of states to prevent environmental harm. The book addresses this issue by offering a systematic, comprehensive assessment that clarifies the rationale, content, and scope of the prevention principle while also placing it in a wider legal context. It culminates in a conceptualization of prevention based on three definitional traits: 1. Its anticipatory rationale; 2. Its due diligence content; and 3. Its wide spatial scope to protect the environment as a whole. The book demonstrates that, while prevention emerged and developed in opposition to the reparation perspective, the prevention and reparation approaches increasingly share a common ground in the concept of compliance control.

To mark the publication of the book, the TLI brings together Dr Duvic-Paoli and an expert panel to discuss this evolving principle of international environmental law.

Speakers:

Professor Jutta Brunnée, Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law, University of Toronto

Dr Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, author of 'The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law' and Lecturer, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London

Professor Duncan French, Professor of International Law and Head of the Lincoln Law School, University of Lincoln

Chair: Dr Philippa Webb, Reader in Public International Law, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London