환경법 소묘 -환경법의 원리, 실제, 방법론에 관한 실험적 고찰-

Abstract

It has been more than 30 years since the Polution Prevention Act, the first

environmental law of Korea, was enacted. While a large number of

environmental laws have been enacted since that time, the academic

development of environmental law study has not kept pace. This article claims

that the underdevelopment of environmental law study results from the

misconception of environmental law. Truly, environmental law has not been

recognized as an unique and separate field of law among scholars in Korea.

Launched from the reflection on the status quo of environmental law study,

this article attempts to set up environmental law as an original field of science

of law. For this purpose, this article aims to find the subject of environmental

law, provide the theoretical basis to cope with environmental problems, and

identify the characteristics of environmental law practices. In addition, this

article claims that a new approach to study environmental law needs to be

developed so that environmental law theories can successfully interact with

environmental law practices.