The public interest environmental law group: from USA to Europe. Issue 6 (2nd November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Goodman, Martin; Connelly, James
• Is Part Of: Environmental politics. Volume 27:Issue 6(2018)
• Page Start: 1014
• Page End: 1032
• Publication Date: 2018-11-02
• Subjects: Environmental NGOs -- ClientEarth -- environmental law -- public interest; Environmental policy -- Periodicals; Environmental protection -- Periodicals; Ecology -- Periodicals; Green movement -- Periodicals; 333.72
• DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2018.1438789
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0964-4016

Abstract

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.