The law of private nuisance is riddled with archaic rules and modern contradictions, and in recent years, it has received significant attention from the courts and legal scholars as it attempts to evolve to address interferences with one's access to telecommunications and sunlight in an increasingly urbanised environment. In The Law of Private Nuisance, Allan Beever criticises the proclivity of a majority of commentators for describing the law of private nuisance "as coming in separate parts" and therefore engaging in an exercise of "limited rationality" (at p. 3). Beever claims to propose an alternative framework that "focuses on the prioritising of property rights" (at p. 2).

“Sustainability” is very much on the world’s agenda today. At the recently-held 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, Sir David Attenborough warned that the stability of the Earth’s climate, which had for millennia enabled human civilisation to flourish, is being seriously threatened by human activity in recent times. It is more urgent than ever that humanity must, in Sir Attenborough’s words, “rewrite our story to turn this tragedy into a triumph”. The notion of “sustainability”, however, is not strictly confined to climate or environmental issues. Embedded in most definitions of sustainability are concerns for social equity and economic development. And in this latter regard, the world has had to grapple with the COVID-19 Pandemic, which has profoundly impacted human life on earth over the last two years. As the United Nations (“UN”) noted, “[the Pandemic] is much more than a health crisis. It is a human, economic and social crisis. The coronavirus disease … is attacking societies at their core” (UN Sustainable Development Group, Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19).