Environmental Groups and Legal Expertise
Shaping the Brexit process
Carolyn Abbot and Maria Lee
There is generally a weak understanding of both the complexity and the potential of legal expertise in the environmental NGO community. Legal expertise can be more than a tool for campaigners, and more than litigation: it provides distinctive ways of both seeing the world and changing the world. The available legal resource in the sector is not just a practical limit on what can be done, but spills into the very understanding of what should be done, and what resource is needed. Mutually reinforcing links between capacity, understanding, culture and investment affect legal expertise across the board.
There are, however, pockets of sophisticated legal expertise in the community, and legal expertise was heavily and often effectively used in the anomalously law-heavy Brexit-environment debate. The ability to call on thinly spread legal expertise in a crisis was in part due to effective NGO collaboration around Brexit-environment.
Carolyn Abbot is Senior Lecturer in the
Law Department at the University of Manchester. Maria Lee is Professor in the Faculty of
Laws at UCL. They have been teaching and researching environmental law,
decision-making and participation in environmental matters, together and
separately, for many years.
Detailed chapter outline
Table of legislation
Table of cases
List of abbreviations
Executive summaries
1. Law and legal expertise for Brexit-environment: scope, meaning and method
2. NGOs, lobbying and legal mobilisation
3. Brexit and the journey to the Environment Act – interrupted
4. Law and legal expertise
5. Mobilising law in practice
6. Lobbying in coalition
7. Greener UK: influence and collaboration
8. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Format: Hardback
Size: 234 × 156 mm
224 Pages
1 B&W illustration
Copyright: © 2021
ISBN: 9781787358607
Publication: March 04, 2021
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