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Rule of Law for Nature: New Dimensions and Ideas in Environmental Law, edited by Christina Voigt Cambridge University Press, 2013, 389 pp, ₤70 hb; ISBN 9781107043268

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2014

Robert V. Percival
Robert V. Percival*
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University of Maryland, School of Law, Baltimore, MD (United States)
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , October 2014 , pp. 407 - 410
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References

1 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 3–14 June 1992.

2 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 20–22 June 2012.

3 UN World Commission on Environment and Development, ‘Report: Our Common Future’, UN Doc. A/42/427/Annex (Oxford University Press, 1987), also available at: http://www.un-documents. net/wced-ocf.htm.

4 Ibid., at p. 330.

5 Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises (Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework), UN Doc. A/HRC/17/31, 21 Mar. 2011, available at: http://www.ohchr.org.

6 C.D. Stone, ‘Should Trees Have Standing?: Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects’ (1972) 45 Southern California Law Review, pp. 450–501.

7 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 US 310 (2010).

8 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 2014 WL 2921709 (2014).

9 T. Yang, ‘The Emerging Practice of Global Environmental Law’ (2012) 1(1) Transnational Environmental Law, pp. 53–65; T. Yang & R.V. Percival, ‘The Emergence of Global Environmental Law’ (2009) 36 Ecology Law Quarterly, pp. 615–64.