| International Judicial Practice on the Environment: Questions of Legitimacy Contributor(s): Voigt, Christina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1108497179 ISBN-13: 9781108497176 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Environmental |
| Dewey: 344.046 |
| LCCN: 2018037699 |
| Series: Studies on International Courts and Tribunals |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 8.4" W x 9.3" (1.80 lbs) 502 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: More and more environmental cases are being heard and decided by international courts and tribunals which lack special environmental competence. This situation raises fundamental questions of legitimacy of the environmental practice of international courts. This book addresses inter alia questions of who has legal standing to bring an environmental claim before an international court, on which legal norms is the case decided and whether judges have the necessary expertise to adjudicate environmental cases of often complex nature. It analyses which challenges international courts face, which possibilities they have and which advances international judicial practice has been able to make in protecting the environment. Through the prism of legitimacy important insights emerge as to whether international courts and tribunals are fit for addressing some of the most pressing global challenges of our time. |
Contributor Bio(s): Voigt, Christina: - Christina Voigt is Professor at the Department of Public and International Law, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway. She is an expert in international environmental law and works in particular on legal issues of climate change, environmental multilateralism, sustainability, and international courts and environmental protection. She is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Environmental Law and the chair of the Commission´s Climate Change Specialist Group. In 2009, she was awarded the first IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Junior Scholarship Prize. She is the author of Sustainable Development as a Principle of International Law (2008), numerous academic articles and several edited volumes. Since 2011, she has been legal advisor to the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment and negotiator in the United Nations climate negotiations. |