Editors
Co-Editors in Chief: Anna Grear, Senior Lecturer in Law, Head of International Law and Human Rights Research Unit, Bristol Law School, Bristol University of West of England, UK and Karen Morrow, Professor of Environmental Law and Co-Director, Centre for Environmental Law and Policy (CEELP), University of Swansea, UK
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Aim and Scope
The relationship between human rights and the environment is a fascinating, uneasy, and increasingly urgent one. This new international journal provides a strategic academic forum in which an extended interdisciplinary and multilayered conversation can take place concerning the challenges located at the interface of these two centrally important fields.
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Editorial Board
The quality of the editorial board, which is made up of leading scholars with outstanding international reputations, ensures that this journal will make a unique contribution to an informed understanding of the relationship between human rights and the environment.
Upendra Baxi, University of Warwick, UK and University of Delhi, India
Klaus Bosselmann, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Sean Coyle, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Exeter, UK
Bharat Desai, Centre for International Legal Studies School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Kevin Gray, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK
Parvez Hassan, Hassan and Hassan, Pakistan
Patricia Kameri-Mbote, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Sarah Joseph, Monash University, Australia
Louis Kotze, Northwest University, South Africa
Bronwen Morgan, University of Bristol, UK
Bradford Morse, University of Ottawa, Canada
Dinah Shelton, The George Washington University, US
Benjamin Richardson, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
Jenny Steele, Director of Research and Graduate School Chair, York Law School, UK
Laura Westra, Ph.D., Ph.D.(Law), Professor Emerita (Philosophy) and Sessional Instructor (Faculty of Law), University of Windsor, Canada
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Forthcoming Issues
Issue 1: Where Discourses Meet, Spring 2010
Contributors:
Conor Gearty: ‘Do Human Rights Help or Hinder Environmental Protection?’
Kevin Gray: ‘Pedestrian Democracy and the Geography of Hope'.
Karen Morrow: ‘Worth the Paper they are Written on? The Value of Procedural Rights in Environmental Law’
Dinah Shelton: ‘Using Environmental Law to Judge Human Rights Violations and Construct Remedies’
Upendra Baxi: ‘Writing about Impunity and Environment: The Silver 'Jubilee' of the Bhopal Catastrophe’
Issue 2: Climate Change, July 2010
Issue 3: Ontological Vulnerability, January 2011
Issue 4: Biodiversity and Food Supply, July 2011
Issue 5: Corporate Environmental and Human Rights Responsibility, January 2012
Issue 6: Rights and Property Paradigms, July 2012
Issue 7: Human Bodies in Material Space, January 2013
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Call for papers and author guidelines
JHRE is a bi-annual journal covering the links and tensions between human rights and environmental issues, regulation and rights.
The editors seek high quality contributions of between 8,000-12,000 words from academics, practitioners and activists working either field. The journal will focus on original research, articles, commentaries and book reviews and will be aimed predominantly at academics and intellectuals working in the public sphere, engaged with the issues. The contributions will be double blind peer reviewed prior to acceptance for publication.
The first issue ‘Where Discourses Meet’ will be published in Spring 2010 and will include articles by Conor Gearty, Upendra Baxi, Kevin Gray, Dinah Shelton and Karen Morrow.
The editors welcome submissions for future editions:-
Issue 2, July 2010: Climate Change, submissions to the editors by 1 January 2010
Issue 3, Jan 2011: Ontological Vulnerability, submissions by 1 July 2010
Issue 4, July 2011: Biodiversity and Food Supply, submissions by 1 January 2011
Issue 5, Jan 2012: Corporate Environmental and Human Rights Responsibility, submissions by 1 July 2011
Author guidelines PDF
Author and Article information sheet
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Submissions
Submissions and editorial queries should be sent to the editors - Anna Grear (anna.grear@uwe.ac.uk) or Karen Morrow (k.morrow@swansea.ac.uk)
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Book review submissions
Book review submissions should be sent to Ben Richardson (brichardson@osgoode.yorku.ca)
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Subscription Information
Two issues a year
ISSN Print 1759-7188 ISSN Online 1759-7196
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