Overview
A 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 Details
Author: Carolyn Abbot ,
Maria Lee
Publisher: UCL Press
Imprint: UCL Press
Weight: 0.490kg
ISBN: 9781787358607
ISBN 10: 1787358607
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 04 March 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'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 Information
Carolyn Abbot is Professor of Law at the University of Manchester. Maria Lee is Professor in the Faculty of Laws at UCL.
