As environmental law as a legal discipline comes of age, it becomes appropriate to subject it to critical appraisals of various shapes and forms. One such appraisal is undertaken in “Environmental Law and Justice in Context”, edited by Jonas Ebbesson and Phoebe Okowa of Stockholm University and Queen Mary University respectively, with special reference to justice and fairness. As noted in the introduction by Ebbesson, such assessment entails multiple considerations of intergenerational, interspecies and inter-state conceptions of justice. In light of this, it may be asserted that any notion of justice is inherently vague, as noted in the chapter by…