The public interest environmental law group: from USA to Europe

Goodman, Martin; Connelly, James

Abstract

The European environmental movement has been reconfigured since the introduction of the pan-European public interest environmental law group based on the model founded in the USA around 1970. Yet it has been claimed that there is a low degree of success in transplanting legal practices from one national space to another. Examination of the successful transplantation of a US legal model to the European context by the law group ClientEarth shows both that this claim is false and why it is false.

Citation

Goodman, M., & Connelly, J. (2018). The public interest environmental law group: from USA to Europe. Environmental Politics, 27(6), 1014-1032. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2018.1438789

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 4, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Feb 19, 2018
• Publication Date: Feb 17, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jan 25, 2021
• Journal: Environmental Politics
• Print ISSN: 0964-4016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1014-1032
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2018.1438789
• Keywords: Environmental NGOs; ClientEarth; Environmental law; Public interest
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/693396
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09644016.2018.1438789?journalCode=fenp20