Biodiversity Litigation

Guillaume Futhazar is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany). His research focuses mainly on international biodiversity law and, within that field, the relationship between law and science and the evolutions of normative trends. He is currently based in La Réunion (France), where he advises the Centre Sécurité Requin on environmental related matters and risk management.Sandrine Maljean Dubois is a senior researcher at the CNRS. She teaches international and European environmental law at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Aix-Marseille University (France). Her research focus is on international environmental law, in particular on biodiversity and climate change law. She is the author of several books and numerous articles on these topics. She serves as a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.Jona Razzaque is a professor of environmental law at Bristol Law School, University of the West of England, and a barrister. Her research focuses on environmental law in the Global South, natural resource governance and environmental justice. She acted as a coordinating lead author of the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2019). She is a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Environmental Law and serves as a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. She has published extensively on participatory rights, biodiversity conservation, nature protection law, ecosystem services, water management, and forest conservation.

• 1: Guillaume Futhazar, Sandrine Maljean-Dubois and Jona Razzaque: Introduction: Setting the scene 2: Margaret A. Young and Ella Vines: Biodiversity litigation in Australia : Constrained efforts to protect beauty, rich and rare 3: Carina Costa De Oliveira, Márcia Dieguez Leuzinger and Larissa Suassuna Carvalho Barros: Biodiversity litigation in Brazil: A strategic tool to ensure the effectiveness of biodiversity protection 4: Frederic Perron-Welch, Chris Tollefson and Joshua Ginsberg: Biodiversity litigation in Canada: In quest of accountability 5: Zhu Mingzhe: Biodiversity litigation in China: Confronting degradation from all sides in the era of ecological civilization 6: Guillaume Futhazar and Lucas Dermenghem: Biodiversity litigation in France: The quest for balance 7: Arpitha Kodiveri: Biodiversity litigation in India: A typology of cases and varieties of environmentalism 8: Neil Lubbe: Biodiversity litigation in South Africa: A rich legal landscape for litigation 9: Paul Stookes: Biodiversity litigation in the UK: A complex set of environmental law norms grappling with a diverging and fragmented legal justice system 10: William J. Snape III: International biodiversity litigation in the United States: Strong conservation laws but challenges with enforcement 11: Charles-Hubert Born and Henfrik Schoukens: Biodiversity litigation before the court of justice of the European Union: A promising pathway for better enforcement of international biodiversity law? 12: Sandrine Maljean-Dubois and Elisa Morgera: International biodiversity litigation: The increasing emphasis on biodiversity law before international courts and tribunals 13: Guillaume Futhazar, Sandrine Maljean-Dubois and Jona Razzaque: Biodiversity litigation: Review of trends and challenges

This work offers an important framework for understanding and implementing international biodiversity law in national courts.