David Gurnham is currently a Reader in Law at the University of Southampton. Research interests are criminal law, law and literature, healthcare law and legal theory. Recent publications include the monograph Memory, Imagination, Justice: Intersections of Law and Literature (Ashgate 2009), as well as a number of articles and book chapter contributions
While there are already some heavier textbooks on international environmental law or textbooks on general public international law which touch upon the subject briefly in a few chapters, there has been a need for an accessible stand-alone introductory textbook on the subject. While many introductory textbooks on law are boring due to their task of simply transporting basic information, it comes as a pleasant surprise that Routledge has now published a book which is eminently readable. Timo Koivurova's Introduction to international environmental law provides exactly what the title says: an excellent introduction to the subject. - Stefan Kirchner, University of Lapland for The Polar Journal 2014