Environmental Courts and Tribunals: Powers, Integrity and the Search for Legitimacy

Specialist courts are a necessary innovation in environmental law, but they pose challenges regarding legitimacy. This book argues for a bottom-up approach to understanding their adjudication and provides valuable insights to practitioners.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 24 December 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The establishment of specialist courts has emerged as a significant and transformative development in the field of environmental law. While these courts are widely acknowledged as a necessary innovation, they also present unique challenges, particularly in terms of their legitimacy. This comprehensive book delves directly into these critical issues, focusing specifically on the courts in the common law world. It makes a compelling argument that to gain a comprehensive understanding of the adjudication process in these courts, a bottom-up approach must be adopted, emphasizing the question before the court as the determinative factor. While the book maintains a theoretical orientation, it offers invaluable insights to practitioners who are engaging with these new courts for the first time. This study represents a groundbreaking exploration of a seismic shift in the way environmental law is approached and adjudicated, making it a must-read for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers alike.
The establishment of specialist courts has emerged as a significant and transformative development in the field of environmental law. While these courts are widely acknowledged as a necessary innovation, they also present unique challenges, particularly in terms of their legitimacy. This comprehensive book delves directly into these critical issues, focusing specifically on the courts in the common law world. It makes a compelling argument that to gain a comprehensive understanding of the adjudication process in these courts, a bottom-up approach must be adopted, emphasizing the question before the court as the determinative factor. While the book maintains a theoretical orientation, it offers invaluable insights to practitioners who are engaging with these new courts for the first time. This study represents a groundbreaking exploration of a seismic shift in the way environmental law is approached and adjudicated, making it a must-read for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers alike.

The establishment of specialist courts has emerged as a significant and transformative development in the field of environmental law.

While these courts are widely acknowledged as a necessary innovation, they also present unique challenges, particularly in terms of their legitimacy.

This comprehensive book delves directly into these critical issues, focusing specifically on the courts in the common law world.

It makes a compelling argument that to gain a comprehensive understanding of the adjudication process in these courts, a bottom-up approach must be adopted, emphasizing the question before the court as the determinative factor.

While the book maintains a theoretical orientation, it offers invaluable insights to practitioners who are engaging with these new courts for the first time.

This study represents a groundbreaking exploration of a seismic shift in the way environmental law is approached and adjudicated, making it a must-read for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers alike.

Weight: 492g
Dimension: 164 x 240 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509940066