The ''McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law'' (''MJSDL'') is a biannual

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

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published at the McGill University Faculty of Law and run solely by law students. The journal was established in 2005 as the ''McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy'' (''MIJSDLP'') by its founding

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

Michelle Toering Sanders. The Journal's current

is Arsalan Ahmed. The journal is edited by Dena Kia and Emma Sitland. It covers legal issues pertaining to

sustainable development Sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. The des ...

and

environmental law Environmental law is a collective term encompassing aspects of the law that provide protection to the environment. A related but distinct set of regulatory regimes, now strongly influenced by environmental legal principles, focus on the manage ...

. The

Australian Research Council The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the primary non-medical research funding agency of the Australian Government, distributing more than in grants each year. The Council was established by the ''Australian Research Council Act 2001'', ...

(ARC) ranked the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law among the best English-language law journals in the world giving it an A rating - a rating shared by only 165 law reviews globally out of 1,265 law journals.

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