Making Law Matter
Subtitle: Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil
Publisher: Stanford Law Books
Published: April 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780804758239
Subjects: Environmental; Law / Environmental; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession
Description: "Although many developing countries have environmental statutes, regulations, and resolutions on the books, these laws are rarely enforced and often ignored. Making Law Matter presents the first book-length treatment of an innovative prosecutorial institution, the Brazilian Ministrio Publico, which refashioned itself in the 1980s into a powerful defender of citizen rights in environmental protection, as well as in other areas of public interest such as disability rights, consumer protection, and anticorruption."--BOOK JACKET.