Making of a New European Legal Culture: The Aarhus Convention: At the Crossroad of Comparative Law and EU Law [Mīkstie vāki]

Scholars of comparative law and European Union law consider whether and to what extent the common rules and principles enshrined in the 1998 Aarhus Convention will bring about, or at least contribute to, the making of a new European legal culture. The question is based on the premise that law is more than just black-letter rules, but encompasses how rules are interpreted, and even how those interpreting the rules are selected and trained and how legal professions are organized. In addition to discussing general topics, they present country reports for France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Spain, and Britain. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

The Aarhus Convention entered into force more than 20 years ago. It lays down the pillars of environmental democracy, that is a governance systems where citizens and civil society organisations are fully involved in the decisions affecting the environment we all live in. On the one hand, the Convention drew on the experience of those jurisdictions where environmental concerns run deeper. On the other hand, once enacted, it was expected to bring about important changes in those jurisdictions which were less sensible to these issues. As such, the Convention is an ideal testing ground upon which to study how legal principles, rules, and institutions behave once they are moved from one jurisdiction to another and how the recipient jurisdiction reacts at receiving a transplant. The analysis, from a legal cultural approach to the law in the EU and 8 Member States, provides a much richer picture about how the Aarhus Convention has been implemented and what are the legal cultural enablers and obstacles to the full development of environmental democracy in different jurisdictions. Additionally, the research assesses how far a common European legal culture has developed in core areas, not just an environmental but in administrative and, to a large extent, constitutional law. The book provides and updated coverage of the implementation of the Aarhus Convention at both EU level and in a relevant number of Member States, and will be useful to academics and practitioners alike. About the editors Roberto Caranta is full professor of Administrative law with the Law Department of the University of Turin (Italy). Anna Gerbrandy professor of Competition Law at the Europa Institute of Utrecht University School of Law, the Netherlands. Dr. Bilun Mueller, LL.M. (Bruges) works at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin. [ Subject: EU Law, European Law, Comparative Law]