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## Abstract Biodiversity litigation is not a novel concept for French courts. Administrative courts have been dealing with biodiversity-related cases for decades. This is not surprising as the French legislator has enacted several laws concerning the constitutive elements of biodiversity (species and habitats mostly) years before the term ‘biodiversity’ was coined as a central concept of environmental governance. In this chapter, the main trends of biodiversity litigation are identified. In doing so, the potential influence of international biodiversity law on the judges’ decisions is also identified. Biodiversity litigation is a phenomenon that occurs mainly before the criminal and administrative courts, administrative courts being the most influential on the evolution of biodiversity law in France. Before the administrative courts, biodiversity litigation amounts to a balancing exercise between environmental considerations and other competing interests. In this balancing exercise, the importance of scientific expertise, especially the expertise produced by public institutions, is fundamental. Although France is heavily involved in the evolution of IBL, this corpus of law has a ma

Author

Guillaume Futhazar; Lucas Dermenghem

Publisher

Oxford University PressOxford

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191955921

Subjects

Law