... aquaculture regulation public interest litigation Coastal Aquaculture Authority separation of powers Although India has enacted several sectoral statutes and established a comprehensive legal framework to protect the environment since the early 1970s, the development of Indian environmental law is often...

... a project threatening habitat of endangered species. By examining this case, this analysis evaluates the promise and limitations of China’s civil environmental public interest litigation (EPIL) in protecting habitat. Under civil EPIL’s broad and flexible framework, environmental NGOs can convince the courts...

... of public interest litigation can, and should, be understood in practice. Building on these debates around the typology of litigation impact, this practice note examines the Life After Coal campaign’s use of litigation in what has become known as South Africa’s first climate change litigation— Earthlife...

..., were mentioned as uniquely enabling petitioners to exercise active citizenship and force government officials to at least consider manual scavengers’ interests. caste Dalit rights mandamus neoliberalism public interest litigation sanitation Sanitation work in India is lethal: 110 workers died...

... forms of environmental constitutionalism, and deserving of further attention. Climate change litigation right to a healthy environment constitutional law public interest litigation Arctic Oil case Neubauer case l’Affaire du siècle case The last several years have seen...

... This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract Environmental public interest litigation (EPIL) is an important...

... ). AIDS treatment constitutionalism law public interest litigation social justice socialism The tragedy of human rights is that they have occupied the global imagination but have so far contributed little of note, merely nipping at the heels of the neoliberal giant whose path goes unaltered...

...’. ²⁸ The ‘direct interest’ requirement precludes non-stakeholders from protecting public environmental interest by litigation, which keeps environmental public-interest litigation out of the courts and makes poor enforcement a greater issue for China’s environmental law. Before the 2012 Civil...

... the world to devise their own effective torture prevention strategy. criminal justice system data and documentation detention monitoring evidence-based advocacy juveniles police detention public interest litigation Given the long-term consistency with which these patterns have emerged, AF...

... the current state of environmental public interest litigation before the three regional human rights bodies of Europe, America and Africa in the light of their constituting treaties and case law. It assesses the likely impact of the Aarhus Convention and the changing national jurisdictions on the procedural...

... political theory discipline of treaty‐making practice of civil rights era public interest litigation terra nullius concept of United Nations administrative law rise & core values of anti‐discrimination norms Charter of Rights and Freedom 1982 Can human rights instruments municipal Racial...

... Micklitz and Thomas Roethe, Public Interest Litigation, Legal Professionalism, and the ECJ: Deciding a Case or Managing Politics? In: The Internal Market Ideal. Edited by: Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Sanja Bogojević, Ariel Ezrachi, and Dorota Leczykiewicz, Oxford University...

... agreements (MEAs) and is an active participant in global environmental diplomacy. However, Chinese courts do not play a significant role in interpreting or developing IEL. Even if environmental litigation were to flourish due to the steps taken to encourage environmental public interest litigation (EPIL...

... by a legal framework welcoming public interest litigation welcomes litigation on behalf of the environment. South Africa, through a vigilant environmental advocacy landscape, has plenty of relevant examples of how biodiversity litigation is used to benefit current and future generations. Some key aspects can...

...This chapter assesses Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which has played, and continues to play, a crucial role in the development of environmental law in India. Indeed, public discourse on the environment began in the 1980s when the Supreme Court responded to a series of PILs concerning river...

... of judicial activism. Public interest litigation invented by the judiciary symbolizes judicial activism and has now become the shield and weapon of the people to protect and demand the rights to which they are entitled under the Constitution and all other laws. The two great principles of natural justice...

... in urban governance and solid waste management. It outlines key interventions by the Supreme Court of India resulting in the framing of rules governing solid waste management. It then explores the implications of public interest litigation (PIL). It draws on a particular PIL concerning the informal plastic...

... and other similar law enforcement institutions with the task of the investigation and prosecution of crimes relating to corruption. It also discusses the issues of public interest litigation and judicial enforcement of corruption-free governance. Official corruption has become a universal...

... economic and social justice through political means. These Principles acquired legal force with early Supreme Court case law that interpreted them in harmony with fundamental rights. The Indian Supreme Court later transformed Directive Principles into enforceable rights through public interest litigation...

... been provided by statutory reparation schemes. Public interest litigation based on breach of duty of care owed by the State to vulnerable people, such as those in immigration detention, has met with some success. However, recent cases in areas such as climate change litigation demonstrate...