Science and Judicial Reasoning - The Legitimacy of International Environmental Adjudication

Examining how judges evaluate scientific knowledge when framing disputes, hearing evidence, conducting causal inquiry, and setting the standard of review, Sulyok provides a comparative analysis of environmental case-law across major international courts. This work also suggests reasoning styles with which judges can legitimately justify decisions.

List of contents

Part I. The Three-Fold Challenge of Engaging with Science in International Environmental Adjudication: 1. Introduction to a comparative study on judicial engagement with science; 2. The rules of judicial engagement with science: a three-fold challenge; Part II. Techniques for Judicial Engagement with Science in the Practice of International Courts and Tribunals: 3. Judicial engagement with science in the environmental case-law of the international court of justice; 4. Science in the practice of inter-state arbitral tribunals; 5. Science in the environmental jurisprudence of regional human rights courts; 6. Scientific claims before the WTO; 7. Science in the practice of investment arbitral tribunals; 8. Science appears before the international tribunal for the law of the sea; Part III. Engaging with Scientific Knowledge in the Judicial Reasoning: 9. Trends in judicial engagement with science: a comparative assessment; 10. Science and the legitimacy of judicial reasoning; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Katalin Sulyok is Lecturer, Department of International Law, ELTE Law School, Budapest.

Summary

Examining how judges evaluate scientific knowledge when framing disputes, hearing evidence, conducting causal inquiry, and setting the standard of review, Sulyok provides a comparative analysis of environmental case-law across major international courts. This work also suggests reasoning styles with which judges can legitimately justify decisions.

Foreword

This pioneering study on environmental case-law examines how courts engage with science and reviews legitimate styles of judicial reasoning.

Product details

• Authors: Katalin Sulyok, Sulyok Katalin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108747431
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74743-1
• No. of pages: 430
• Series: Cambridge Studies on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Environmental, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Natural Resources, Environmental Economics, Social impact of environmental issues, comparative law, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Energy & natural resources law, Energy and natural resources law