Amicus curiae and the environment
International Journal of Development Research
Amicus curiae and the environment
Received 20th May, 2021; Received in revised form 29th June, 2021; Accepted 21st July, 2021; Published online 29th August, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Vinícius Egas Salvajoli et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study seeks to analyze the institute of the amicus curiae within the scope of the Brazilian class action and the principle of popular participation. The question is whether the amicus curiae is an adequate instrument to foster participation and popular control in the environmental class actions. This study takes advantage of the legal-theoretical approach and deductive reasoning, along with a bibliographic research technique. At the end of the study we were able to show that the amicus curiae present themselves as a partially democratic instrument, one that is necessary for the development and improvement of a new democratic agent that more fittingly allows for better and more aligned participation and popular control over environmental demands.
