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This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for pollution in contemporary China. In a country known for tight political control and ineffectual courts, Environmental Litigation in China unravels how everyday justice works: how judges make decisions, why lawyers take cases, and how international influence matters. It is a readable account of how the leadership's mixed signals and political ambivalence play out on the ground – propelling some, such as the village doctor who fought a chemical plant for more than a decade, even as others back away from risk. Yet this remarkable book shows that even in a country where expectations would be that law wouldn't much matter, environmental litigation provides a sliver of space for legal professionals to explore new roles and, in so doing, probe the boundary of what is politically possible.

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• Full title: Environmental Litigation in China
• Subtitle: A Study in Political Ambivalence
• Author: Rachel E Stern
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 314
• EAN: 9781107020023
• ISBN: 1107020026
• ID: 01243867
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 532 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 152 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. March 2013

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