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The Right of Access to Environmental Information Sean Whittaker (University of Dundee)

The Right of Access to Environmental Information By Sean Whittaker (University of Dundee)

The Right of Access to Environmental Information by Sean Whittaker (University of Dundee)


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The book is intended to serve academic lawyers, with a focus on environmental and information lawyers. It focusses on the right to environmental information and the impact of the Aarhus Convention on how England, America and China guarantees the right via legal transplant theory.

The Right of Access to Environmental Information Summary

The Right of Access to Environmental Information by Sean Whittaker (University of Dundee)

The book discusses the normative impact of the Aarhus Convention on how England, America and China guarantees the right of access to environmental information. Through this analysis the book identifies each of these jurisdictions' unique conceptualisations of the right which, in turn, influences the design of their respective environmental information regimes. This allows these jurisdictions potentially to act as sources of legal reforms for each other to improve how the right is guaranteed via legal transplant theory, challenging the normativity of the Aarhus Convention. This is not to suggest that the Aarhus Convention exerts no normative influence on how the right is guaranteed; there are core substantive and core procedural elements which have to be met for the right to be effectively guaranteed, and the book shows that the Aarhus Convention does exert a normative influence over the procedural elements of the right.

About Sean Whittaker (University of Dundee)

Sean Whittaker completed his PhD at University College Cork, during which he visited Vermont Law School and China University of Political Science and Law. He is the Executive Director of the Centre for Freedom of Information and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Dundee.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Bridging the gaps between jurisdictions: Analysing legal transplant theory as a means of legal reform; 3. The Aarhus convention: The global standard for the right of access to environmental information?; 4. The environmental information regime in England; 5. The right of access to environmental information in the United States; 6. East meets West: The right of access to environmental information in China; 7. The future development of the right of access to environmental information: Applying legal transplant theory to England, the US and China; 8. Conclusions, key findings and future directions.

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NPB9781108845236
9781108845236
1108845231
The Right of Access to Environmental Information by Sean Whittaker (University of Dundee)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2021-11-18
200
N/A
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