The book discusses the normative impact of the Aarhus Convention on how England, America and China guarantees the right of access to environmental information. Through this analysis the book identifies each of these jurisdictions' unique conceptualisations of the right which, in turn, influences the design of their respective environmental information regimes. This allows these jurisdictions potentially to act as sources of legal reforms for each other to improve how the right is guaranteed via legal transplant theory, challenging the normativity of the Aarhus Convention. This is not to suggest that the Aarhus Convention exerts no normative influence on how the right is guaranteed; there are core substantive and core procedural elements which have to be met for the right to be effectively guaranteed, and the book shows that the Aarhus Convention does exert a normative influence over the procedural elements of the right.

A comparative analysis via legal transplant theory on how England, America and China guarantee the right to environmental information.

About the Author
Sean Whittaker completed his PhD at University College Cork, during which he visited Vermont Law School and China University of Political Science and Law. He is the Executive Director of the Centre for Freedom of Information and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Dundee.


Book Information
ISBN 9781108845236
Author Sean Whittaker
Format Hardback
Page Count 200
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 520g
Dimensions(mm) 232mm * 158mm * 21mm