Abstract

In any comprehensive guide to international environmental law, analysis of the scholarship of this domain occupies a necessarily unique position. It is an opportunity for scholars of international environmental law to take a step back from the status quo and examine how we construct, describe, and interrogate the field. As with any legal discipline, scholarship is an essential element in the wider discourse, as the means of creating and promulgating knowledge, and yet it rarely is itself subject to analysis. However, scholarship, defined here as academic research and the ensuing publications written primarily – though increasingly not now exclusively – for an academic audience or for teaching purposes, is fundamental to the historical development and ongoing formulation of any sub-discipline.