환경법학의 발전이 사법이론과 판례에 미친 영향과 환경법학회의 역할

Since its establishment on December 7, 1977, the Korean Environmental Law Association has been making efforts to investigate, research, publish, and disseminate environmental law in accordance with its objectives for the past 40 years. However, in order for the Korean Environmental Law Association to play a leading role in Environmental Civil Law, several matters should be addressed. First, although when considering protection of the environment and of personal interests, research in the civil law area should provide a foundation, private law-based articles make up only about 13.06% of all the published articles since the very first issue to Volume 39, No. 1 of the Journal of Environmental Law. Therefore, in order to enhance quality and quantity of articles based in civil law, it is necessary to actively seek ways to expand the members of the Association to include more of those who have majored in civil law. Secondly, because the Korean Environmental Law Association has had more of conferences addressing theme-based topics in comparison to other academic associations, there is a need for a thorough planning for its conferences. At the planning stage of conferences, if civil law topics are appropriately arranged, not only the participation of civil law scholars would be encouraged but also may bring a beneficial effect of excellent articles being published in the Journal of Environmental Law. Thirdly, since most of reasonable conclusions for environmental research topics and cases can result from both public and private law approaches, Study Groups should be created in order for members with public law, private law, and science backgrounds to be able to approach the issues in a balanced manner. Fourthly, in consideration of the future of the Korean Environmental Law Association, programs for future generations to study and research environmental law should be developed. In this sense, it is desirable to create a TF to seek ways to improve the competition among graduate students for the best environmental law paper, which has been held every year since 2010.