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This book examines how the EU can be a more proactive actor in the promotion of the principles of sustainability and fairness from a legal environmental perspective. The book is one of the results of the research activity of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Environmental Law (2017-2020) funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme.

The European Union and Global Environmental Protection: Transforming Influence into Action begins with an introduction of the key EU competences, instruments and mechanisms, as well as the current international challenges at the EU level. It then explores case study examples from four regulated fields: climate change, biodiversity, multilateral trade, unregulated fishing, and access to justice; and four unregulated areas: mainstreaming of the Sustainable Development Goals in EU policies, and environmental justice, highlighting the extent to which the EU might align with international environmental regimes or extend its normative power.

This volume will be of great relevance to students, scholars, and EU policy makers with an interest in international environmental law and policy.

Mar Campins Eritja is Full Professor of Public International Law at the University of Barcelona.

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Chapter 1.: Introduction

Mar Campins Eritja, University of Barcelona 

Chapter 2: Climate change: Some Challenges for Enhancing the EU's International Influence

Mar Campins Eritja, University of Barcelona

1.- Introductory remarks

2.- The shared exercise of EU competences.

3.- A comprehensive and integrated approach to fight climate change.

4.- The United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the EU stronger alliance with China

5.- The Brexit and its impact on the EU climate policy

6.- Final remarks

List of references 

Chapter 3: The EU Diplomacy for Biodiversity and the Future EU Biodiversity Strategy

Teresa Fajardo del Castillo, University of Granada

1. Introductory remarks

2. A EU competence and a legal mandate to protect biodiversity globally

3. Is there a specific EU diplomacy for biodiversity?

4. Recommendations for the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy: Aligning its objectives with those of Green Multilateralism

5. Final remarks

List of references

Chapter 4: The Role of the EU in the Promotion of Sustainable Development through Multilateral Trade

Xavier Fernández Pons, University of Barcelona

1. Introductory remarks

2. The EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and its special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance (GSP+)

3. The inclusion of a chapter on sustainable development in the new regional trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by the EU with third countries

4. The EU and sustainable public procurement

5. The recent reform of the EU regulation of anti-dumping measures and the issue of so-called social and ecological dumping

6. EU’s trade measures related to carbon footprint

7. Final remarks

List of references

Chapter 5: The EU’s Global Leadership in the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

Xavier Pons Rafols, University of Barcelona

1. Introductory remarks.

2. The global phenomenon of IUU fishing.

3. International legal concept of IUU fishing.

4. Basis and scope of the EU regulations on IUU fishing.

5. Core content of the EU regulations on IUU fishing.

6. The international effect of EU action: establishment of a list of non-cooperating third countries.

7. The multilateral influence of EU action: The Port State Measures Agreement and other international legal and institutional frameworks to combat IUU fishing.

8. Final remarks

List of references 

Chapter 6: The International Dimension of the EU on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

Alex Peñalver i Cabré, University of Barcelona

1. Introductory remarks

2. The role of the EU in strengthening access to justice in environmental matters under International Law

3. The EU’s inadequate implementation of the Aarhus Convention on access to justice in environmental matters

4. The Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee case ACCC/C/2008/32 and the shortcomings in access to justice in environmental matters at EU level

5. EU response to the Meeting of the Parties of Aarhus Convention in case ACCC/C/2008/32

6. Final remarks

List of references

Chapter 7: Environmental Refugees: Reshaping the Borders of Migration in the EU

Susana Borràs Pentinat, Rovira i Virgili University

1.- Introductory remarks

2.- People moving in the context of environmental change

3.- Environmental refugees: the forgotten migrants in the EU migration policy

4.- Towards the recognition of the environmental refugees at the EU level?

5.- Mind the gap: defending and protecting environmental refugees at the EU level

6. Final remarks

List of references 

Chapter 8: Environmental Crime: Assessing and Enhancing EU Compliance with International Environmental Law

Maria Marques Banque, Rovira i Virgili University

1. Introductory remarks.

2. Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), EU Law and criminal sanctions.

3. The Directive 2008/99/EC on the protection of the environment through criminal law

4. The protection of the environment through criminallLaw in the EU beyond the Directives 2008/99/EC and 2009/123/EC.

5. A proposal to enable the EU to reinforce its position within the international environmental regime.

6. Final remarks

List of references 

Chapter 9: Mainstreaming Sustainable Development Goals into EU Policies

Mar Aguilera Vaqués, University of Barcelona

1.- Introductory remarks

2.- From the concept of sustainable development to Sustainable Development Goals

3. Sustainable Development Goals as an EU political effort

4. The EU as a global trailblazer in sustainable development

5. From mainstreaming Sustainable Development Goals to the 2019 European Green Deal.

6. Final remarks

List of references

Chapter 10: Environmental Justice in EU Law and Policies: A Fundamental Challenge

Jordi Jaria Manzano, Rovira i Virgili University

1.- Introductory remarks

2.- Environmental justice vs sustainable development: conceptual considerations about the interpretation of the global environmental crisis

3.- Environmental justice and fundamental EU values

4.- EU law, EU policies and environmental justice: vulnerability, conflicts and change

5.- Final Remarks

List of references

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L’autrice ricostruisce il pensiero politico di Otto Brunner (1898-1982) così come emerge dalla sua produzione storiografica. Criticando l’indebita proiezione di concetti politici moderni sul passato medievale, Brunner ha ridefinito la comprensione stessa della politica moderna. Il confronto con Carl Schmitt, Max Weber, Karl Marx e con la sociologia del suo tempo induce lo storico austriaco a precisare il criterio del ‘politico’ all’interno della società industriale contemporanea e dell’ideologia che la sostiene. L’analisi delle strutture secolari – dei concetti fondamentali e delle costituzioni materiali – che secondo lui hanno dato forma alla storia sociale europea è volta ad affermare l’esistenza di una tradizione politica tipicamente europea, nobiliare e cristiana, che fa da contrappeso all’intima instabilità della modernità.

Isabella Consolati è assegnista di ricerca in Storia delle dottrine politiche presso il Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà dell’Università di Bologna. Ha pubblicato «La prospettiva geografica. Spazio e politica in Germania tra 1815 e il 1871» (Ed. di storia e letteratura, 2016).

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Introduzione. Il dominio come storia

I. Sulla storia del ‘politico’

1. Storia e politica
2. La realtà del dominio
3. La costituzione oltre lo Stato
4. Consociazione e signoria

II. Storia e struttura della razionalità europea

1. Dall’Impero all’Europa
2. Per una nuova storia sociale
3. Capitalismo e società industriale
4. Città, borghesia e Stato moderno
5. Il mimetismo del dominio

III. Ethos, ideologia, tradizione

1. Alla ricerca della tradizione europea
2. Declino dell’individualità aristocratica
3. La transizione ideologica
4. Tradizione e rivoluzione

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Der Begriff „Staat“ in seinem modernen Verständnis wurde im deutschsprachigen Reich nicht mit Bezug auf das frühneuzeitliche Alte Reich als Ganzes und erst recht nicht auf die Konsolidierung fürstlicher Macht über Land und Leute gemünzt. Vielmehr stand seine Genese im Zusammenhang mit den erbitterten Konflikten zwischen entstehenden Landständen und Fürsten angesichts der Verwüstungen des Dreißigjährigen Krieges. Die zeitgenössische und auf Luther zurückgehende Polemik gegen verbrecherische Fürsten aufnehmend, sollte Seckendorffs „Teutscher Fürstenstaat“ (1656) als vermeintlich bis weit ins Mittelalter zurückreichende Einheit aus Land, Leuten und Gesetzen seine Bewohner durch eigene Rechtsordnung und rechtmäßige Verwaltung (Policey) vor der Inkompetenz und Bosheit der Fürsten schützen. Seit dem letzten Drittel des 17. Jahrhunderts fanden diese Ideen, deren Herausbildung das Buch auf breiter Quellenbasis nachzeichnet, zunehmend auch bei vielen Fürsten und ihren Beratern in evangelischen wie katholischen deutschen Landen Anklang.

In the German-speaking Reich, the term "state" in its modern understanding was not coined with reference to the early modern Old Reich as a whole and certainly not with the consolidation of princely power over land and people as its aim. Rather, its genesis was related to the bitter conflicts between emerging estates and princes in the face of the devastations of the Thirty Years' War. Taking up the contemporary polemics against criminal princes dating back to Luther, Seckendorff's "Teutscher Fürstenstaat" (1656) was supposed to protect its inhabitants from the incompetence and wickedness of the princes by means of their own legal system and lawful administration (Policey) as a unit of land, people and laws that allegedly reached far back into the Middle Ages. Since the last third of the 17th century these ideas, the development of which the book traces on a broad source basis, have increasingly found favour with many princes and their advisors in Protestant and Catholic German countries.

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This book argues that conflicts over slavery and abolition in the early American Republic generated a mode of constitutional interpretation that remains powerful today: the belief that the historical spirit of founding holds authority over the current moment. Simon J. Gilhooley traces how debates around the existence of slavery in the District of Columbia gave rise to the articulation of this constitutional interpretation, which constrained the radical potential of the constitutional text. To reconstruct the origins of this interpretation, Gilhooley draws on rich sources that include historical newspapers, pamphlets, and congressional debates. Examining free black activism in the North, Abolitionism in the 1830s, and the evolution of pro-slavery thought, this book shows how in navigating the existence of slavery in the District and the fundamental constitutional issue of the enslaved's personhood, Antebellum opponents of abolition came to promote an enduring but constraining constitutional imaginary.

'Gilhooley gives us a new and profoundly original account of the roots, during the era of slavery, of today's battles over constitutional interpretation. In the process, he reconceives the political legacy of the 1820s and 1830s, scrambles our contemporary assumptions about the ideological meaning of the different theories of the Constitution, and thoroughly dissects the American worship of the founders. This is a terrific book and one to be returned to again and again.' Aziz Rana, Cornell University

Simon J. Gilhooley is Assistant Professor, Political Studies and American Studies, Bard College, New York. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, among others.

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Introduction
1. The Constitutional Imaginaries of the Missouri Crisis
2. The Declaration of Independence and Black Citizenship in the 1820s
3. Abolitionism and the Constitution in the 1830s
4. The Slaveholding South and the Constitutionalization of Slavery
5. Theories of the Federal Compact in the 1830s
6. Slavery, The District of Columbia, and the Constitution
7. The Congressional Crisis of 1836
8: The Compact and the Election of 1836
9. The Afterlife of the Compact of 1836
Conclusion