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Informationen zum Autor Rachel Stern is an Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Her articles on law, social activism and environmental issues in China and Hong Kong have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Law and Policy, China Quarterly and other journals. She is a former Junior Fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows. Klappentext An account of everyday justice and the factors that shape it in the battle to seek legal relief for environmental pollution in China. "The book is perhaps the most significant contribution to the pantheon of books on China's legal development published in the past ten years. Through on the ground research, including review of hundreds of legal cases, interviews with lawyers, judges, government officials and average citizens, Environmental Litigation in China is not some theoretical analysis of the law. Rather it provides a concrete example of law in action in China...Environmental Litigation in China is a great book and an important study." --China Law and Policy Zusammenfassung This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for environmental pollution in contemporary China. The book offers a close-to-the-ground account of everyday justice and the factors that shape it. In a country known for tight political control and ineffectual courts! Environmental Litigation in China unravels how litigation works. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Post-Mao: economic growth, environmental protection, and the law; 2. From dispute to decision; 3. Frontiers of environmental law; 4. Political ambivalence: the state; 5. On the front lines: the judges; 6. Heroes or troublemakers? The lawyers; 7. Soft support: the international NGOs; 8. Thinking about outcomes.
