Philosophy: Environmental risk and international law

Philosophy: Environmental risk and international law John Martin Gillroy is a Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Public Policy at Lehigh University. Here, he shares his expertise in philosophy, particularly in environmental risk and international public law. Elsewhere, (1) I have argued that to create the anticipatory law necessary to regulate environmental risk (ER) requires both a superstructure of positive law in the Precautionary Principle (PP) and a corresponding normative substructure based on the philosophical imperative to protect and empower humanity-in-the-person. This allows us to justify a priori planning and regulatory policy to prevent harm before it occurs. Here, I will specify what such a normative substructure might entail.