The International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) and the School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London (SOAS) organised a conference on Water Law Reforms and the Right to Water:  Lessons from India in Geneva on 23–24 January 2009. [ Click here for more information about this conference ]

The Water Law Research Partnership successfully ended at the end of February 2009. The main outcomes of this projet will be three books that will be published later this year:

•  P. Cullet, A. Gowlland-Gualtieri, R. Madhav & U. Ramanathan eds, Water

Law for the Twenty-first Century: National and International Aspects of Water Law Reforms in India (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming 2009). [ Routledge page ]

•  P. Cullet, Water Law, Poverty and Development – Water Law Reforms in India ( Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009). [ OUP page ]

•  P. Cullet, A. Gowlland-Gualtieri, R. Madhav & U. Ramanathan eds, Water Law at the Crossroads – National and International Perspectives With Special Emphasis on India (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009).

Publication of the first issue of 2009. Please follow this link for the full table of contents.

concerning article submissions can be found at www.lead-journal.org/authors.htm. Please send your contributions to info@lead-journal.org.

Book Chapters

Usha Ramanathan, ‘A Word on Eminent Domain', in Lyla Mehta ed., Displaced by Development – Confronting Marginalisation and Gender Injustice ( New Delhi : Sage, 2009), p. 133.

Philippe Cullet (with Joyeeta Gupta), ‘Evolution of Water Law and Policy in India', in Joseph W. Dellapenna & Joyeeta Gupta eds, The Evolution of the Law and Politics of Water (Dordrecht : Springer Academic Publishers, 2009), p. 159.

David Takacs, ‘The Public Trust Doctrine, Environmental Human Rights, And The Future Of Private Property' 16 New York University Environmental Law Journal (2008), p.711.