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This anthology discusses important issues surrounding environmental law and economics and provides an in-depth analysis of its use in legislation, regulation and legal adjudication from a neoclassical and behavioural law and economics perspective.Environmental issues raise a vast range of legal questions: to what extent is it justifiable to rely on markets and continued technological innovation, especially as it relates to present exploitation of scarce resources? Or is it necessary for the state to intervene? Regulatory instruments are available to create and maintain a more sustainable society: command and control regulations, restraints, Pigovian taxes, emission certificates, nudging policies, etc. If regulation in a certain legal field is necessary, which policies and methods will most effectively spur sustainable consumption and production in order to protect the environment while mitigating any potential negative impact on economic development? Since the related problems are often caused by scarcity of resources, economic analysis of law can offer remarkable insights for their resolution.Part I underlines the foundations of environmental law and economics. Part II analyses the effectiveness of economic instruments and regulations in environmental law. Part III is dedicated to the problems of climate change. Finally, Part IV focuses on tort and criminal law. The twenty-one chapters in this volume deliver insights into the multifaceted debate surrounding the use of economic instruments in environmental regulation in Europe. Klaus Mathis is full professor for Public Law, Law of the Sustainable Economy and Philosophy of Law at the University of Lucerne. He is the co-founder of the Center for Law and Sustainability (CLS) and vice-president of the research commission of the University of Lucerne. Furthermore he is member of the evaluation commission 'Ambizione' of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Bruce Huber teaches and conducts research in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, property, and energy law. His particular areas of expertise include energy regulation, public land and resource management, and the interaction between law and politics. His scholarship in these fields has been published in such journals as the California Law Review, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and The Georgetown Law Journal.

This anthology illustrates how law and economics is developing in Europe and what opportunities and problems - both in general and specific legal fields - are associated with this approach within the legal traditions of European countries. The first part illuminates the differences in the development and reception of the economic analysis of law in the American Common Law system and in the continental European Civil Law system. The second part focuses on the different ways of thinking of lawyers and economists, which clash in economic analysis of law. The third part is devoted to legal transplants, which often accompany the reception of law and economics from the United States. Finally, the fourth part focuses on the role economic analysis plays in the law of the European Union. This anthology with its 14 essays from young European legal scholars is an important milestone in establishing a European law and economics culture and tradition

Main description: "Wir blicken manchmal derart angestrengt nach Amerika, dass wir in Gefahr geraten, das Gute vor der eigenen Haustüre gar nicht mehr zu sehen. Die Disziplin Law and Economics stösst auch hierzulande nicht nur auf zunehmende Aufmerksamkeit, sondern auch auf wissenschaftliches Interesse. [...] Unter dieser Prämisse ist auch auf die Zürcher Dissertation (2003) von Klaus Mathis hinzuweisen, der sich in einer gedankenreichen Analyse der modernistischen, in Chicago neu entstandenen Richtung von Law and Economics widmet und dabei weit mehr leistet als vieles, was man bisher im deutschen Sprachraum gesehen hat." Prof. Dr. Peter Nobel, in: NZZ, 4./5. Juni 2005"Law and Economics" hat mittlerweile an vielen deutschsprachigen Universitäten Eingang in den Fächerkanon der juristischen Ausbildung gefunden, was Autor und Verlag dazu bewogen haben, eine dritte, überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage dieses Grundlagenwerkes herauszugeben.

Eine Entwicklung ist nachhaltig, wenn sie den Bedürfnissen der heutigen Generationen entspricht, ohne dass sie die Möglichkeit der zukünftigen Generationen, ihre Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen, gefährdet. Klaus Mathis verfolgt einen interdisziplinären Ansatz und leuchtet die Thematik der nachhaltigen Entwicklung und Generationengerechtigkeit aus rechtlicher, ökonomischer und philosophischer Sicht aus. Angesichts der globalen Tragweite des Themas wird dabei nicht nur die schweizerische, sondern auch die internationale Debatte abgebildet. Die Publikation richtet sich deshalb an ein breites Publikum aus verschiedenen Disziplinen im gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum. Dabei sind aus rechtsvergleichender Perspektive insbesondere die mannigfaltige rechtliche Verankerung der nachhaltigen Entwicklung in der schweizerischen Bundesverfassung und ihre Umsetzung in der Gesetzgebung und Rechtsanwendung von Bedeutung.

This book pursues the questions from a broad range of law and economics perspectives. Digital transformation leads to economic and social change, bringing with it both opportunities and risks. This raises questions of the extent to which existent legal frameworks are still sufficient and whether there is a need for new or additional regulation in the affected areas: new demands are made on the law and jurisprudence.