As Lord Carnwath of the UK Supreme Court notes in his Foreword, National Courts and EU Environmental Law ‘for the first time provides a systematic and comparative analsyis of how national courts handle these principles in the cases before them. The book includes thirteen case-studies plus cross-cutting analytical chapters.
National Courts and EU Environmental Law emerged from work of the Avosetta Group, a small informal group of lawyers whose main purpose is to further the development of environmental law in the European Union and Member States. Avosetta is the Latin name of a rare bird which caused the European Court of Justice to establish far reaching principles of European nature protection law in the German dykes case (Commission v Germany [1991] ECR I-882)
The editors presented the first copy to the host of the Helsinki meeting of the Avosetta group, prof. Ari Ekroos, on 31 May 2013. From left to right: prof. Moreno-Molina, prof. Macrory, prof. Ekroos and prof. Jans.
