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OverviewA close look at environmental NGO advocacy during Brexit and how legal expertise can be a resource in moments of crisis. This book explores the use and understanding of law and legal expertise by environmental groups. Rather than focusing on the courtroom, however, this volume scrutinizes environmental NGO advocacy during the extraordinarily dramatic Brexit process, from the referendum on leaving the EU in 2016 to the debate around the new Environment Bill in 2020. In an effort to show how legal expertise is more than a campaign tool or the threat of litigation, this book describes the ways in which law can provide distinctive ways of both seeing and changing the world. Legal resources in the environmental sector are not just a practical limit on what can be done, but an opportunity to investigate the very understanding of what should be done. Legal expertise was heavily and often effectively used in the anomalously law-heavy Brexit-environment debate. This book will clarify this moment and the NGO collaboration that made it possible for environmental advocates to call upon legal expertise in a moment of crisis. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carolyn Abbot , Maria LeePublisher: UCL Press Imprint: UCL Press Weight: 0.320kg ISBN: 9781787358591ISBN 10: 1787358593 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 04 March 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsDetailed chapter outline Table of legislation and draft legislation Table of cases List of abbreviations Acknowledgements 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 IndexReviews'Offers s a tantalizing glimpse of how legal expertise 'has amore substantive role to play in understanding and shaping the world' (p. 178)... The insights on collaborative expertise and gateway intelligence are both fresh and important. It is fitting that two environmental lawyers who have looked beyond their own specializations into the domains of political science and expertise have produced such a rich case study on Brexit, NGOs, and the influence of cause lawyers. That such an excellent book is also published open access should, I hope, encourage a wide readership.' Journal of Law and Society 'This book marks the beginning of a new and interesting phase in legal scholarship. Although the book was probably not written to do so, it gently rattles the foundations of what we understand as worthwhile in legal research. ..We have only analysed environmental movements to the extent they turn to courts to initiate legal change. But as banal it is to note this, it should not take the courts to make something significant and relevant for (environmental) legal research. Nothing I have read in years attests to this more effectively than this book.' Journal of Environmental Law Author InformationCarolyn Abbot is Professor of Law at the University of Manchester. Maria Lee is Professor in the Faculty of Laws at UCL. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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