Book Review: Yuko Aoyama and Balaji Parthasarathy, The Rise of the Hybrid Domain: Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation

Date01 December 2018
Published date01 December 2018
DOI10.1177/0019556118788412
Subject MatterBook Reviews
768 Book Reviews
Usha Tandon has tried to compare the Land and Environment Court (LEC) estab-
lished way back in 1980 in the state of New South Wales (NSW) with India’s
National Green Tribunal (NGT) established in 2010. The LEC in its long years
of operation has evolved a high standard for environmental adjudication, whereas
NGT in its short years of existence has performed quite well but faces some
structural and institutional challenges. She thinks NGTs’ jurisdiction needs to
be widened beyond the enlisted seven legislations, internal checks and balances
(such as interim orders, reviews and appeals) for efficient and transparent delivery
of justice; other governmental stakeholders implementing its decisions need to be
entrenched, and it should be equipped with better infrastructure, office staff and
case management facilities.
Notes
1. Professor Dann had written an earlier piece comparing India and EU titled, ‘Federal
Democracy in India and the European Union: Towards Transcontinental Comparison
of Constitutional Law’, thus setting the agenda for comparison between India and EU
(Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (VRÜ), Volume 2, 2011, pp. 160–176).
2. Unlike China where the priests and scholars were subservient to the state and the
warrior class.
References
Fukuyama, F. (2012). The origins of political order: From prehuman times to the French
revolution (pp. 151–161). London: Prole Books.
Walker, N. (2013). The shifting foundations of the European Union Constitution.
In D. J. Galligan & M. Versteeg (Eds), Social and political foundations of constitutions
(pp. 637–659). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pratyush Kumar
LLM, George Washington University;
PhD Student, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
pratyush.kumar@uniupo.it;
pkumar@law.gwu.edu
Yuko Aoyama and Balaji Parthasarathy, The Rise of the Hybrid
Domain: Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation. Cheltenham,
UK: Edward Elgar, 2016, 232 pp., $120.00 (cased) and $108.00 (e-book).
ISBN: 978 1 78536 042 8 (cased). ISBN: 978 1 78536 043 5 (e-Book).
DOI:10.1177/0019556118788412
The book is an in-depth study of the cutting edge concept of social innovation
which has now become commonplace for solving many developmental problems
of a large and populous developing country like India. In focusing on social inno-

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