Marjan Peeters教授来所讲授环境法的程序性权利

Prof. Marjan Peeters has given lectures in RIEL on the theme of “procedural rights to environmental law”

On the morning of March 29, 2017, the forty-sixth lecture of the Luojia Environmental Law Forum was held at the 325 classroom of the law school. Prof. Marjan Peeters from the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, lectured on the theme of "Procedural Rights to Environmental Law". Prof. Ben Boer, Prof. Alexander Zahar, Dr. Wu Yu and all of the Ph.D. and postgraduate students attended. The lecture was presided over by Liu Jing, Associate Prof. of RIEL.

The first part of the lecture, Prof. Peeters introduced the article by Christopher D. Stone "Should the tree qualify for the plaintiff?" to lead to today's theme. In the second part of the lecture, Prof. Peeters gave a detailed introduction to the three pillars of the Aarhus Convention, which mainly includes access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice. Prof. Peeters distinguishes between those who are able to exercise these procedural rights. In the third part of the lecture, Prof. Peeters gave a brief account of the EU practice on the Aarhus Convention.

During the lecture, Prof. Ben Boer, Prof. Alexander, Director Hu Bin and the students questioned actively, and Prof. Peeters answered one by one.

At the end of the lecture, Prof. Ben Bore introduced the Australian Environmental Public Interest Litigation System, and the director of Hu Bin made a brief introduction to the provisions of Article 58 of the Environmental Protection Law of China on environmental public interest litigation. Everybody involved in the heated discussion and comparative analysis.