The public interest environmental law group: from USA to Europe

The European environmental movement has been reconfigured since the introduction of the pan-European public interest environmental law group based on the model founded in the USA around 1970. Yet it has been claimed that there is a low degree of success in transplanting legal practices from one nati...

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Published in:Environmental politics 2018-11, Vol.27 (6), p.1014-1032
Main Authors: Goodman, Martin, Connelly, James
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attorneys
ClientEarth
Environmental law
Environmental movements
Environmental NGOs
Environmental policy
Environmentalism
Law
Public concern
Public interest
Transplantation
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Summary:The European environmental movement has been reconfigured since the introduction of the pan-European public interest environmental law group based on the model founded in the USA around 1970. Yet it has been claimed that there is a low degree of success in transplanting legal practices from one national space to another. Examination of the successful transplantation of a US legal model to the European context by the law group ClientEarth shows both that this claim is false and why it is false.
ISSN:0964-4016
1743-8934
DOI:10.1080/09644016.2018.1438789