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This timely book examines the increasing pressure on courts to protect underrepresented matters of public interests at the risk of political reprisals. It explores the different strategies used by judges across jurisdictions in Europe, the USA, India and South Africa to legitimize their decisions in contentious public interest cases.
Contents
Preface
1 Public interest litigation
2 Judicialization of politics or politicization of the judiciary?
3 Racial desegregation in American public schools: parents
involved in community schools v. Seattle School District
No. 1 (PICS)
4 The Urgenda climate case in The Netherlands: the spark
igniting global climate change litigation
5 F v. Bevándorlási és Állampolgársági Hivatal: gay asylum
seekers and the European Court of Justice
6 The Delhi vehicular pollution case: the Indian Supreme
Court battling air pollution
7 The treatment action campaign case on the prevention of
mother-to-child transmission of HIV in South Africa
8 Legitimacy of public interest litigation
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