Elen Stokes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3986213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elen Stokes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elen |
| FAMILY NAME | Stokes |
| SIGNATURE | STOKES E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hope-Bearing Legislation? The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 is a landmark piece of sustainable development legislation and marks a significant development in the emerging legal identity of Wales. Despite the Act's significance and ambition, it has been criticized as merely 'aspirational' - as 'non-law-bearing' and unenforceable by legal means. The Act is not without difficulties. However, it also has notable legal and other qualities that are often not…
Historical futures and future futures in environmental law pedagogy
In this paper, we begin reflecting on how ‘futures literacy’ – recently championed by UNESCO as a vital skill that allows people to better understand the role of the future in what they see and do – might be developed in environmental law pedagogy. Law and legal analysis tend to be absent from futures scholarship and we discuss various ways of engaging with environmental law as an important but underexplored site and means of future-making. We co…
Beyond evidence
This article lays the groundwork for a new approach to understanding how law engages with the future, based on the social science theory and practice of anticipation. Anticipation, as depicted by an extensive interdisciplinary literature, encourages a shift in attention from the future as a matter solely of probability and effect, to the future as a wider array of possibilities operating on the present. Notably absent from this literature is law.…
EloiseScotford, Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law, Oxford
These are uncertain times for UK environmental law, and clear analytical insight provides a most welcome tonic. Eloise Scotford’s Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law offers exactly that – a much-needed dose of incisive scholarship on an issue of suddenly intractable proportions: how environmental principles will live on in the post-Brexit era
Regulatory Domain and Regulatory Dexterity
This article provides a critique of the UK government's regulatory response to ‘fracking’. It shows how government has adopted two distinct schemas of regulation, which may usefully be classified under the headings ‘regulatory domain’ and ‘regulatory dexterity’. These schemas rely on very different interpretive conventions and are in many ways contradictory. Yet, government uses both ‘domain’ and ‘dexterity’ arguments simultaneously in order to a…
Anticipating the Societal Challenges of Nanotechnologies
Nanotechnology and the Products of Inherited Regulation
New technologies do not always elicit new regulatory responses. More often than not, policymakers deal with new technologies by deferring to existing regulatory regimes. This article argues that there are often overlooked consequences of grafting a new technological area, displaying different types of risks and uncertainties, onto an existing regulatory framework. Not only can it entail the application of ill‐suited rules and standards, but it ca…
You are what you eat
This article considers the role of consumers in the regulation of nanotechnology. The principal regulatory response to nanotechnology to date has been to require the disclosure of information. One such mechanism currently under negotiation in the food sector is the mandatory labelling of nanomaterial ingredients, commonly justified on the ground that consumers have the right to know what they eat. Not only does this provide a vehicle for free mar…
Regulating Technologies
Environmental Governance
The EC courts' contribution to refining the parameters of precaution
By virtue of its ambiguity, it has largely been left to the courts to flesh out the scope and application of the precautionary principle. This paper examines the contribution made by EC courts to defining the parameters of precautionary decision making. In so doing, it illustrates that, though the precautionary principle is seen to operate in a number of regulatory contexts, discernible trends in judicial interpretations of precaution and the und…
Beyond evidence
This article lays the groundwork for a new approach to understanding how law engages with the future, based on the social science theory and practice of anticipation. Anticipation, as depicted by an extensive interdisciplinary literature, encourages a shift in attention from the future as a matter solely of probability and effect, to the future as a wider array of possibilities operating on the present. Notably absent from this literature is law.…
Nanotechnology and the Products of Inherited Regulation
New technologies do not always elicit new regulatory responses. More often than not, policymakers deal with new technologies by deferring to existing regulatory regimes. This article argues that there are often overlooked consequences of grafting a new technological area, displaying different types of risks and uncertainties, onto an existing regulatory framework. Not only can it entail the application of ill‐suited rules and standards, but it ca…
You are what you eat
This article considers the role of consumers in the regulation of nanotechnology. The principal regulatory response to nanotechnology to date has been to require the disclosure of information. One such mechanism currently under negotiation in the food sector is the mandatory labelling of nanomaterial ingredients, commonly justified on the ground that consumers have the right to know what they eat. Not only does this provide a vehicle for free mar…
Environmental Governance
The EC courts' contribution to refining the parameters of precaution
By virtue of its ambiguity, it has largely been left to the courts to flesh out the scope and application of the precautionary principle. This paper examines the contribution made by EC courts to defining the parameters of precautionary decision making. In so doing, it illustrates that, though the precautionary principle is seen to operate in a number of regulatory contexts, discernible trends in judicial interpretations of precaution and the und…
Historical futures and future futures in environmental law pedagogy
In this paper, we begin reflecting on how ‘futures literacy’ – recently championed by UNESCO as a vital skill that allows people to better understand the role of the future in what they see and do – might be developed in environmental law pedagogy. Law and legal analysis tend to be absent from futures scholarship and we discuss various ways of engaging with environmental law as an important but underexplored site and means of future-making. We co…
The EC courts' contribution to refining the parameters of precaution
By virtue of its ambiguity, it has largely been left to the courts to flesh out the scope and application of the precautionary principle. This paper examines the contribution made by EC courts to defining the parameters of precautionary decision making. In so doing, it illustrates that, though the precautionary principle is seen to operate in a number of regulatory contexts, discernible trends in judicial interpretations of precaution and the und…
Environmental Governance
Regulating Technologies
You are what you eat
This article considers the role of consumers in the regulation of nanotechnology. The principal regulatory response to nanotechnology to date has been to require the disclosure of information. One such mechanism currently under negotiation in the food sector is the mandatory labelling of nanomaterial ingredients, commonly justified on the ground that consumers have the right to know what they eat. Not only does this provide a vehicle for free mar…
Nanotechnology and the Products of Inherited Regulation
New technologies do not always elicit new regulatory responses. More often than not, policymakers deal with new technologies by deferring to existing regulatory regimes. This article argues that there are often overlooked consequences of grafting a new technological area, displaying different types of risks and uncertainties, onto an existing regulatory framework. Not only can it entail the application of ill‐suited rules and standards, but it ca…
Anticipating the Societal Challenges of Nanotechnologies
Regulatory Domain and Regulatory Dexterity
This article provides a critique of the UK government's regulatory response to ‘fracking’. It shows how government has adopted two distinct schemas of regulation, which may usefully be classified under the headings ‘regulatory domain’ and ‘regulatory dexterity’. These schemas rely on very different interpretive conventions and are in many ways contradictory. Yet, government uses both ‘domain’ and ‘dexterity’ arguments simultaneously in order to a…
EloiseScotford, Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law, Oxford
These are uncertain times for UK environmental law, and clear analytical insight provides a most welcome tonic. Eloise Scotford’s Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law offers exactly that – a much-needed dose of incisive scholarship on an issue of suddenly intractable proportions: how environmental principles will live on in the post-Brexit era
Beyond evidence
This article lays the groundwork for a new approach to understanding how law engages with the future, based on the social science theory and practice of anticipation. Anticipation, as depicted by an extensive interdisciplinary literature, encourages a shift in attention from the future as a matter solely of probability and effect, to the future as a wider array of possibilities operating on the present. Notably absent from this literature is law.…
Historical futures and future futures in environmental law pedagogy
In this paper, we begin reflecting on how ‘futures literacy’ – recently championed by UNESCO as a vital skill that allows people to better understand the role of the future in what they see and do – might be developed in environmental law pedagogy. Law and legal analysis tend to be absent from futures scholarship and we discuss various ways of engaging with environmental law as an important but underexplored site and means of future-making. We co…
Hope-Bearing Legislation? The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 is a landmark piece of sustainable development legislation and marks a significant development in the emerging legal identity of Wales. Despite the Act's significance and ambition, it has been criticized as merely 'aspirational' - as 'non-law-bearing' and unenforceable by legal means. The Act is not without difficulties. However, it also has notable legal and other qualities that are often not…
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Environmental law and policy (3 works)