Friday, 19 June 2015 – Environmental Courts, Enforcement, Judicial Review and Appeals: Exploring the Options for Ireland funded by Irish Research Council New Foundations grant 2014-15
Programme – Environmental Courts Conference – UCC- 19 June 2015 – final
Background paper by Mr Justice Frank Clarke, Supreme Court & Adjunct Professor, School of Law, UCC “A Possible Environmental Court: The Constitutional and Legal Parameters” (June 2015)
A Possible Environmental Court – Mr Justice Frank Clarke – June 2015
Áine Ryall, School of Law, UCC “A Framework for Exploring and Environmental Court for Ireland” (July 2015)
A Framework for Exploring the Idea of an Environmental Court for Ireland
Power point presentation by Áine Ryall, School of Law, UCC ”Why the Idea of a Specialised Environmental Court is Attractive”
Background Reading:
The following two papers by Judge Merideth Wright, former Presiding Judge, Vermont Environmental Court are useful background reading for our conference on 19 June:
Wright, “The Vermont Environmental Court” (2010) 3 Journal of Court Innovation 201
Text available here: https://www.nycourts.gov/court-innovation/Winter-2010/jciWright.pdf
Wright, “Procedural Environmental Rights Giving Access to Justice: lessons from Vermont and other courts handling environmental cases around the world” paper prepared for the 3rd UNITAR-Yale Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy, 5-7 September 2014, New Haven
Text available here: http://conference.unitar.org/yale2014/sites/conference.unitar.org.yale2014/files/2014%20UNITAR-Yale%20Conference-Merideth%20Wright.pdf
Further background reading:
Pring and Pring, Greening Justice: Creating & Improving Environmental Courts and Tribunals (The Access Initiative, 2009) http://www.accessinitiative.org/resource/greening-justice
Journal of Environmental Law (Open Access) Virtual Collection on Specialist Environmental and Planning Courts: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/envlaw/special-virtual-issue.html
