This is a book review of Ben Pontin, THE ENVIRONMENTAL CASE FOR BREXIT: A SOCIO-LEGAL PERSPECTIVE Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2019, 157 pp ISBN 978-150992-089-1. This review has been submitted to the Journal of Environmental Law

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