WCEL Member Highlights the Important Role of Environmentally Dedicated Courts
WCEL Member Eeshan Chaturvedi assesses the role of dedicated environmental judicial systems in “Green Courts: The Way Forward?”
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This paper analyzes the viability of having green courts with dedicated environmental jurisdiction, separate from the general judicial system. The National Green Tribunal (NGT), India has been a success story through which environmental jurisprudence, awareness and consciousness have benefited over the last decade. The Author has made an effort to take the NGT of India as a reference point for discussing the advantages and disadvantages of green courts. After a detailed analysis of the pros and cons of having a dedicated environmental judiciary, the paper then proceeds to conclude through the analysis that green courts, like the NGT, prove to be a feasible system of adjudication generally advantageous for environmental adjudication across the board.
You can access the full paper pulished in the Cornell Policy Review here.
About the Author
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