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Environmental Litigation in China A Study in Political Ambivalence [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Law)
  • Author:  Stern, Rachel E.
  • Author:  Stern, Rachel E.
  • ISBN-10:  1107020026
  • ISBN-10:  1107020026
  • ISBN-13:  9781107020023
  • ISBN-13:  9781107020023
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Pages:  314
  • Pages:  314
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2013
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2013
  • SKU:  1107020026-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  1107020026-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100771130
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An account of everyday justice and the factors that shape it in the battle to seek legal relief for environmental pollution in China.This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for environmental pollution in contemporary China. The book offers a close-to-the-ground account of everyday justice and the factors that shape it. In a country known for tight political control and ineffectual courts, Environmental Litigation in China unravels how litigation works.This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for environmental pollution in contemporary China. The book offers a close-to-the-ground account of everyday justice and the factors that shape it. In a country known for tight political control and ineffectual courts, Environmental Litigation in China unravels how litigation works.This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for pollution in contemporary China. In a country known for tight political control and ineffectual courts, Environmental Litigation in China unravels how everyday justice works: how judges make decisions, why lawyers take cases, and how international influence matters. It is a readable account of how the leadership's mixed signals and political ambivalence play out on the ground  propelling some, such as the village doctor who fought a chemical plant for more than a decade, even as others back away from risk. Yet this remarkable book shows that even in a country where expectations would be that law wouldn't much matter, environmental litigation provides a sliver of space for legal professionals to explore new roles and, in so doing, probe the boundary of what is politically possible.1. Post-Mao: economic growth, environmental protection, and the law; 2. From dispute to decision; 3. Frontiers of environmental law; 4. Political ambivalence: the state; 5. On the front lines: the judges; 6. Heroes or troublemakers? The lawyers; 7. Soft support: the international NGOs; 8. Thinking about outcomes. [This] book is plc(
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