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Science and Judicial Reasoning - Katalin Sulyok

Science and Judicial Reasoning

The Legitimacy of International Environmental Adjudication

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Buch | Softcover
430 Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-74743-1 (ISBN)
CHF 48,85 inkl. MwSt
Examining how judges evaluate scientific knowledge when framing disputes, hearing evidence, conducting causal inquiry, and setting the standard of review, Sulyok provides a comparative analysis of environmental case-law across major international courts. This work also suggests reasoning styles with which judges can legitimately justify decisions.
Science, which inevitably underlies environmental disputes, poses significant challenges for the scientifically untrained judges who decide such cases. In addition to disrupting ordinary fact-finding and causal inquiry, science can impact the framing of disputes and the standard of review. Judges must therefore adopt various tools to adjust the level of science allowed to enter their deliberations, which may fundamentally impact the legitimacy of their reasoning. While neglecting or replacing scientific authority can erode the convincing nature of judicial reasoning, the same authority, when treated properly, may lend persuasive force to adjudicatory findings, and buttress the legitimacy of judgments. In this work, Katalin Sulyok surveys the environmental case law of seven major jurisdictions and analyzes framing techniques, evidentiary procedures, causal inquiries and standards of review, offering valuable insight into how judges justify their choices between rival scientific claims in a convincing and legitimate manner.

Katalin Sulyok is Lecturer, Department of International Law, ELTE Law School, Budapest.

Part I. The Three-Fold Challenge of Engaging with Science in International Environmental Adjudication: 1. Introduction to a comparative study on judicial engagement with science; 2. The rules of judicial engagement with science: a three-fold challenge; Part II. Techniques for Judicial Engagement with Science in the Practice of International Courts and Tribunals: 3. Judicial engagement with science in the environmental case-law of the international court of justice; 4. Science in the practice of inter-state arbitral tribunals; 5. Science in the environmental jurisprudence of regional human rights courts; 6. Scientific claims before the WTO; 7. Science in the practice of investment arbitral tribunals; 8. Science appears before the international tribunal for the law of the sea; Part III. Engaging with Scientific Knowledge in the Judicial Reasoning: 9. Trends in judicial engagement with science: a comparative assessment; 10. Science and the legitimacy of judicial reasoning; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 576 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 1-108-74743-4 / 1108747434
ISBN-13 978-1-108-74743-1 / 9781108747431
Zustand Neuware
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