Environmental Law Before the Courts: A US-EU Narrative

The book explores the latest trends in environmental law, analyzing sectors such as administrative law, constitutional law, EU law, US Law, and human rights law. It highlights the evolution of these sectors before courts and tribunals from a US-EU perspective and the perspectives of academics and justices. Supranational and national courts have delivered significant environmental judgements, reflecting the expansion of environmental and climate litigation as a tool to strengthen environmental protection. Courts are increasingly seeking their own role as an important player in multilevel environmental governance, particularly after the Paris Agreement. Their role in shaping environmental rule of law will be fundamental in the near future.

Format: Hardback
Length: 342 pages
Publication date: 31 October 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Environmental law has undergone significant evolution in recent years, with a growing number of cases being brought before courts and tribunals from a US-EU perspective and from the perspectives of some of the foremost academics and justices from the major jurisdictions. This book sheds light on the latest trends in environmental law by analyzing some of the main sectors of law, including administrative law, constitutional law, EU law, US Law, and human rights law. It explores the evolution of these sectors before courts and tribunals from a US-EU perspective and from the perspectives of some of the foremost academics and justices from the major jurisdictions. Supranational and national courts, both in Europe and in the US, have delivered significant environmental judgements in recent years. The corresponding case law reflects how, in many jurisdictions, environmental and climate litigation continues to expand exponentially as a tool to strengthen environmental protection, whether by pushing national governments to be more ambitious or by enforcing existing statutes and regulations. Courts, particularly after the Paris Agreement, are increasingly seeking their own role as an important player in multilevel environmental governance. Courts in both the US and EU are at the forefront of this process and their role in shaping environmental rule of law will be fundamental in the near future.

Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031415265
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023