Colloquium "D'un droit privé de l'environnement" ("A private environmental law")

Faculty of Law and Political Science, bât. 1, amphi D - entrance rue de l'école Mage, Montpellier.
Free admission.

Environmental law cannot be confined to the study of public action alone.
The most recent examples reveal an ever-growing demand for citizens to have a direct right of action against those they consider to be harming the environment.

Beyond this single issue, however, and more particularly the all-important one of compensation, other questions remain. The notion of general interest is perhaps no longer to be considered in the same way. The desire to combat climate change also means mobilizing private players.
The execution of private law contracts sometimes poses - and will no doubt do so more frequently in the future - difficulties specific to environmental protection.

Over the past twenty years, the clean-up of classified sites has posed numerous difficulties, whether the operating company is still in business or in receivership or liquidation.

The aim of this event is to go even further, and to reflect on the concepts and notions of what this private environmental law would be, and to define, through an analysis of the issues and certain problems, the ambitions that could be allocated to it.

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