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 ‘legality’ in the judicial review…
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 entry into force of the…
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% by the end of 2020,…
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 I carried out between the…