Domestic regulatory decisions involving matters of human health or the environment are increasingly coming under scrutiny by international courts and tribunals. One of the latest examples concerns an Australian law that mandates the plain packaging of cigarettes and which is being challenged in...

The future is drying out. And yet, the role of law in the governance of water resources seems to be spared of critical scrutiny. At the heart of the matter is our conception of water. Water is now a matter of global concern regulated through what is called here 'Global Water Governance' (GWG)....