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Sustainable Development Law Policy Volume 10 Issue 1 Fall 2009: Sustainable Developm ent in the Article 12 Courts Towards a Jurisprudence of Sustainable Development in South Asia: Litigation in the Public Interest Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe Follow this and additional works at : /sdlp Part of the Environmental Law Commons, and the Public Law and Legal Theory Commons Recommended Citation Puvimanasinghe, Shyami Fernando. Towards a Jurisprudence of Sustainable Development in South Asia: Litigation in the Public Interest Sustainable Development Law Policy, Fall 2009, 41-49, 86-87. This Feature is brought to you for free and open access by the ashington College of Law Journals Law R eviews at Digital Commons @ American University ashington College of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sustainable Development Law Policy by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ American University ashington College of Law. For more information, please contact fbrown@. towarDS a JuriSpruDence of SuStainable Development in South aSia : litigation in the public intereSt by Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe* This paper presents an updated version of part of a chapter these cases has, within limits, been liberalized from the need to in “Foreign Investment, Human Rights and the Environment: be an aggrieved person, to simply being a person with a genu- A Perspective from South Asia on the Role of Public Interna- ine and sufficient concern. In addition, class actions allow one tional Law for Development,” published by Koninklijke Brill suit in the case of multiple plaintiffs and/or defendants, and have NV, Leiden, The Netherlands, in 2007, which in turn consisted of been useful in this area. an adapted version of the author’s PhD thesis.