The Roles and Use of Law in Green Criminology

This paper examines how law and legal analysis fit within the broader green criminological project. By demonstrating how legal analysis in various forms can cast significant light on key green criminological questions, the paper seeks to address the concern that green criminology – with its preponderance of ‘deep green’ viewpoints and focus on social harms which are not proscribed by formal law – precludes the application of legalistic values such as certainty and consistency. Ultimately, the goal of the paper is to demonstrate how, despite the novel challenges to the legal scholar presented by green criminology, the incorporation of a more legalistic perspective within an interdisciplinary exercise is not only desirable for green criminology but is in fact vital if the field is to realise its ambitions as a force for environmental good.

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Nanomaterials and European Novel Food law: The uncertain path to reasonable regulation

elni Review ◽

10.46850/elni.2011.002 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 8-14

Author(s):

Julian Schenten

Keyword(s):

Food Packaging ◽

Food Additives ◽

The Novel ◽

Legal Analysis ◽

Food Sector ◽

Contact Materials ◽

Novel Food ◽

Food Regulation ◽

Food Law ◽

Regulatory Controls

The objective of the present article is to examine whether current regulations at the European level are capable of adequately controlling the risks associated with engineered nanomaterials of anthropogenic origin (ENM) in food products. In this context it is crucial to examine closely the Novel Food Regulation (EC) 258/977 and its attempted revision, which recently failed. The article also includes a consideration of the legislative procedure and a discussion of the legislative bodies’ different positions. In contrast, the regulatory controls of food contact materials such as food packaging or food additives would go beyond the scope of this article. Prior to the legal analysis some remarks are made about the state of the art regarding risk assessment and the application of ENM in the food sector.

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Franco's Hajj: Moroccan Pilgrims, Spanish Fascism, and the Unexpected Journeys of Modern Arabic Literature

PMLA ◽

10.1632/pmla.2017.132.5.1097 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 132 (5) ◽

pp. 1097-1116 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eric Calderwood

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Arabic Literature ◽

The Novel ◽

Travel Narrative ◽

Legal Scholar ◽

Francisco Franco ◽

Heritage Sites ◽

Modern Arabic

Journey to Mecca (; al-Rihla al-Makkiyya; 1941), by the distinguished Moroccan historian and legal scholar Ahmad al-Rahuni, recounts a hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, sponsored by the fascist Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1937. Franco's support for the hajj was part of a vast propaganda effort to cast Franco's Spain as a friend of Islam and a defender of the cultural heritage of al-Andalus (medieval Muslim Iberia). Al-Rahuni's travel narrative blurs the line between Mecca and Spain by casting Spain's Islamic heritage sites as a metaphoric Mecca to which Muslims should make pilgrimage. The account thus highlights the collaboration between Spanish fascists and Moroccan elites. It also complicates the dominant scholarly narratives about modern Arabic literature, which have tended to focus on Egypt, the novel, and secular epistemologies. Al-Rahuni's text speaks, instead, to the persistence of Arabic prose genres that do not conform to a Eurocentric notion of literature.

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Public Assistance, Drug Testing, and the Law: The Limits of Population-Based Legal Analysis

American Journal of Law & Medicine ◽

10.1177/009885881404000102 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 26-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Candice T. Player

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Drug Testing ◽

Law And Economics ◽

Public Assistance ◽

Legal Reasoning ◽

Population Based ◽

Legal Issues ◽

Legal Analysis ◽

Legal Scholar ◽

The Law

In Populations, Public Health and the Law, legal scholar Wendy Parmet urges courts to embrace population-based legal analysis, a public health inspired approach to legal reasoning. Parmet contends that population-based legal analysis offers a way to analyze legal issues—not unlike law and economics—as well as a set of values from which to critique contemporary legal discourse. Population-based analysis has been warmly embraced by the health law community as a bold new way of analyzing legal issues. Still, population-based analysis is not without its problems. At times, Parmet claims too much territory for the population perspective. Moreover, Parmet urges courts to recognize population health as an important norm in legal reasoning. What should we do when the insights of public health and conventional legal reasoning conflict? Still in its infancy, population-based analysis offers little in the way of answers to these questions. This Article applies population-based legal analysis to the constitutional problems that arise when states condition public assistance benefits on passing a drug test, thereby highlighting the strengths of the population perspective and exposing its weaknesses.

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Ratify and comply: a pathway for Japan to follow the FATF recommendation 35

Journal of Money Laundering Control ◽

10.1108/jmlc-02-2017-0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 71-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Akira Matsuoka

Keyword(s):

Money Laundering ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Task Force ◽

The Novel ◽

Legal Analysis ◽

Financial Action Task Force ◽

Content Type ◽

Financial Action Task ◽

Strategic Solution

Purpose To identify the reason of Japan not complying with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendation 35 and suggesting a strategic solution to overcoming the barrier. Design/methodology/approach Through contextual, historical, and legal analysis of the anti-money laundering (AML) measures in Japan. Findings This paper implies that less flexible mindsets in stone of major players in the field of AML measures in Japan are the fundamental barrier for Japan not complying with the FATF Recommendation 35, while this paper suggests better realistic ways to address the barrier. Originality/value The novel point of this paper is that this paper illustriously uncovers the mindsets of the major players pertaining to the Japanese AML measures in a very illustrative way, points out the underlying true barrier, and describes a useful strategy desperately needed to address the barrier.

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