Environmental Courts and Tribunals: Powers, Integrity and the Search for Legitimacy

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The global phenomenon of the establishment of specialist courts is one of the most important recent developments in environmental law. Although they are generally seen as a much needed innovation, they do pose challenges, particularly around questions of legitimacy. This important book tackles these questions directly, looking specifically at the courts in the common law world. It argues that to fully understand the nature of the adjudication of these courts, a bottom-up approach must be taken: ie the question before the court is determinative. Despite its theoretical focus, the book will also provide invaluable insights to practitioners engaging with these new courts for the first time. An innovative study on a seismic change in how environmental law is adjudicated.

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The book is well written, dense with ideas and filled with detail it will repay reading many times over. -- David Kirkpatrick, Chief Environment Court Judge * Resource Management Journal *
This book is an excellent and stimulating way to prompt thinking about a big subject that will be very much a live issue in the coming years. -- Colin T Reid, University of Dundee * Scottish Planning and Environmental Law *
Warnocks work makes an important and convincing contribution to our understanding of environmental adjudication. It significantly advances the scholarship and adds an enormous amount to the richness of our thinking about environmental courts. -- Emma Lees * Journal Of Environmental Law *

Author Bio

Ceri Warnock is Professor of Law at the University of Otago.