Essay

Critically discuss ONE topic from among the following:

1. ‘In the continually evolving EU regulatory landscape for environmental protection, voluntary environmental agreements have much to offer as a flexible, responsive and efficient alternative to ‘command-and-control' regulation.'
OR

2. ‘The general principles of EU law, along with the guiding principles of EU environmental policy, play a key role in informing the adoption and implementation of innovative regulatory approaches to environmental protection.'
OR

3. ‘The 2004 Environmental Liability Directive has proven to be a largely pointless exercise in EU legal harmonisation'.
OR

4. ‘Though the precise legal character of the "human right to water" remains rather unclear, its associated discourse has significantly impacted water-related policy making at multiple levels of administration.'

Length: 4,000 words in length, excluding reasonable footnotes.