Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and the Role of NGOs
Empirical Findings and Legal Appraisal
Published in February 2005
Book
Hardback
X, 228 pages
978-90-76871-28-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Avosetta Series, published by Europa Law Publishing, publishes texts that present innovative discourse on European Environmental Law.
This book, sixth in the series, is based on the findings of a research study on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters that the European Commission has commissioned in 2002 in order to provide input on the preparation of a proposal for a Directive on access to justice. In particular, the book is aimed to assess recent developments and the current situation concerning NGOs access to justice in environmental matters in a certain number of member states, and in particular to obtain empirical data on the number of cases brought by environmental associations. The contributors have long working experience in universities and practice.
This book, sixth in the series, is based on the findings of a research study on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters that the European Commission has commissioned in 2002 in order to provide input on the preparation of a proposal for a Directive on access to justice. In particular, the book is aimed to assess recent developments and the current situation concerning NGOs access to justice in environmental matters in a certain number of member states, and in particular to obtain empirical data on the number of cases brought by environmental associations. The contributors have long working experience in universities and practice.
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Nicolas de Sadeleer is Marie Curie Chair holder at the University of Oslo where he is in charge of an EU sponsored research programme. He is also a Professor of environmental law at the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis and at the Institut d'études européennes de l'Université catholique de Louvain and post doctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Law of the Vrijie Universiteit Brussels. His other professional experience includes serving as a Director from 1990 to 2003 of the Environmental Law Center at the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis.
Miriam Dross studied law in Berlin, Germany and Washington D.C., U.S., where she received a Masters Degree in International Legal Studies. Inter alia she worked as a desk officer at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Directorate G II, International Cooperation from 2001 to 2002. Since November 2002 she is staff lawyer at the Environmental Law Division of the Öko-Institut, Darmstadt. Her main fields of expertise are international and European law.
Gerhard Roller is professor of law at Bingen University for applied sciences since 1997 and there Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies and Applied Research since 2003. He has been publishing extensively on environmental law in Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands. He is the author of 'Komitologie und Demokratieprinzip', published in Kritische Vierteljahresschrift fur Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2004).
Miriam Dross studied law in Berlin, Germany and Washington D.C., U.S., where she received a Masters Degree in International Legal Studies. Inter alia she worked as a desk officer at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Directorate G II, International Cooperation from 2001 to 2002. Since November 2002 she is staff lawyer at the Environmental Law Division of the Öko-Institut, Darmstadt. Her main fields of expertise are international and European law.
Gerhard Roller is professor of law at Bingen University for applied sciences since 1997 and there Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies and Applied Research since 2003. He has been publishing extensively on environmental law in Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands. He is the author of 'Komitologie und Demokratieprinzip', published in Kritische Vierteljahresschrift fur Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2004).