@inbook{638ed00f052a4bc8b665b2966af353fc,
title = "Legitimacy: What{\textquoteright}s in a Name?",
abstract = "This introductory chapter presents a blueprint for examining how courts and quasi-judicial bodies contribute to the legitimacy of EU environmental governance. It proposes a series of questions structuring an inquiry into the role of judicial decision-making in a broader environmental governance framework. The questions are based on the assumption that courts provide {\textquoteleft}throughput{\textquoteright} legitimacy by holding public authorities to account for their decisions. The questions focus on, first, the institutional and procedural capacity of courts to act as accountability fora, second, on the values that the judicial process fosters, and, third, on the outcome of the judicial process, including its long-term contribution to environmental protection. The following chapters of this volume put this blueprint into practice, thereby fleshing out the judicial contribution to the legitimacy of EU environmental governance.",
keywords = "accountability fora, courts, environmental governance, environmental protection, judicial decision-making, judicial process, legitimacy, quasi-judicial bodies, throughput legitimacy",
author = "Mariolina Eliantonio and Michal Krajewski and Emma Lees",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The multiple contributors 2025.",
year = "2025",
month = jul,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1093/oso/9780198972808.003.0001",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780198972808",
series = "Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "1--20",
editor = "Mariolina Eliantonio and Emma Lees",
booktitle = "Legitimacy of Eu Environmental Governance and the Role of the European Courts",
address = "United Kingdom",
}