Effective judicial protection… Is the EU Courts’ toolbox to tackle scientific uncertainty sufficient?, by Mariolina Eliantonio and Michał Krajewski 22 Apr 202221 Apr 2022 As the EU Courts' docket of legal disputes involving uncertain scientific appraisals grows, questions about how the EU judges engage with science appear. This engagement may impact our understanding of…
ECtHR Case Law… Environmental procedural rights before European courts: still searching for a common script or multiplying avenues of protection?, by Justine Richelle 25 Feb 202224 Feb 2022 Environmental procedural rights are guaranteed by the Aarhus Convention, which the EU and the Member States have ratified. The Convention has been designed to leave room for interpretation. Since the…
Comparative Administrative Law… Climate Change Litigation in Europe, by Laurien Nijenhuis 11 Feb 202214 Jan 2022 Introduction Climate change litigation in Europe (and beyond) has been inspired by the Dutch Urgenda-case, in which the Dutch government was ordered to reach an emission reduction target of 25%…
Democracy… The French “débat public”: A Model for European Environmental Democracy?, by Alberto Nicotina 29 Oct 202127 Oct 2021 In REALaw 2/2021, I published an article titled ‘A procedural idea of environmental democracy: the ‘debat public’ procedure within the EU framework’. The article is the outcome of research that…