Environmental Litigation in China - A Study in Political Ambivalence

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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel E. Stern, Rachel E. (University of California Stern, Stern Rachel E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2014
• EAN: 9781107460027
• ISBN: 978-1-107-46002-7
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; China, LAW / General, Environment law, International Environmental Law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law