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Emerging Principles of International Environmental Law. By Sumudu Atapattu. Transnational Publishers, 2006. Pp. xxviii, 535. Index. $125, €125. - International Environmental Law: Fairness, Effectiveness and World Order. By Elli Louka. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 518. Index. $101, £59, cloth; $52, £32, paper.

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Emerging Principles of International Environmental Law. By Sumudu Atapattu. Transnational Publishers, 2006. Pp. xxviii, 535. Index. $125, €125.
International Environmental Law: Fairness, Effectiveness and World Order. By Elli Louka. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 518. Index. $101, £59, cloth; $52, £32, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Charles Di Leva
Charles Di Leva*
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World Bank
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Recent Books on International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 101 , Issue 4 , October 2007 , pp. 933 - 938
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References

1 E.g., David, Hunter, James, Salzman, & Durwood, Zaelke, International Environmental Law and Policy (3d ed. 2007)Google Scholar; Donald, K. Anton, Jonathan, I. Charney, Phillippe, Sands, Thomas, J. Schoenbaum, & Michael, K. Young, International Environmental Law: Cases, Materials, Problems (2007)Google Scholar; Edith Brown, Weiss, Stephen, C. Mccaffrey, Daniel Barstow, Magraw, & Tarlock, A. Dan, International Environmental Law and Policy (2d ed. 2007).Google Scholar

2 On this point she could have referred to the establishment of the compliance committee under the Kyoto Protocol as an example of where environmental law may be “catching up” with human rights law. In fairness to Atapattu, however, it was not until after her book was published—that is, until the eleventh (2006) and twelfth (2007) conferences of the parties for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change—that the compliance committee made significant progress is fleshing out its standards.

3 Decision Regarding Communication 155/96 (Social and Economic Rights Action Center/Center for Economic and Social Rights v. Nigeria), Case No. ACHPR/COMM/A044/1 (Aft. Comm’n Hum. & Peoples’ Rts. May 27, 2002); see Dinah, Shelton, Case Report: Decision Regarding Communication 155/96 (Social and Economic Rights Action Center/Center for Economic and Social Rights v. Nigeria), 96 AJIL 937 (2002).Google Scholar