Sketching Environmental Law -A Experimental Study on Its Principles, Practices, and Methodology-

It has been more than 30 years since the Polution Prevention Act, the first environmental law of Korea, was enacted. While a large number of environmental laws have been enacted since that time, the academic development of environmental law study has not kept pace. This article claims that the underdevelopment of environmental law study results from the misconception of environmental law. Truly, environmental law has not been recognized as an unique and separate field of law among scholars in Korea. Launched from the reflection on the status quo of environmental law study, this article attempts to set up environmental law as an original field of science of law. For this purpose, this article aims to find the subject of environmental law, provide the theoretical basis to cope with environmental problems, and identify the characteristics of environmental law practices. In addition, this article claims that a new approach to study environmental law needs to be developed so that environmental law theories can successfully interact with environmental law practices