Environmental Litigation in China

This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for pollution in contemporary China. In a country known for tight political control and ineffectual courts Environmental Litigation in China unravels how everyday justice works: how judges make decisions why lawyers take cases and how international influence matters. It is a readable account of how the leadership''s mixed signals and political ambivalence play out on the ground - propelling some such as the village doctor who fought a chemical plant for more than a decade even as others back away from risk. Yet this remarkable book shows that even in a country where expectations would be that law wouldn''t much matter environmental litigation provides a sliver of space for legal professionals to explore new roles and in so doing probe the boundary of what is politically possible.