Transnational Climate Law

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Abstract

Climate change shatters the idea that jurisdictional borders and doctrinal debates about the scope of the ‘legal’ are the sole tensions with which a concept of transnational law must contend. Climate change exposes a further fault line underlying legal thought and practice – the problematic, but deep-rooted practice of separating ‘Human’ from ‘Nature’. This separation, and its accompanying assumption that the natural environment is a limitless resource for human exploitation, is powerfully challenged by the reality of a dramatically changing planet, and the rise of Anthropocene literature that bring planetary limits sharply into view. This chapter reaches beyond the most visible manifestations of climate law – legislation and lawsuits that appear already bearing the climate law label – to explore the ways in which a transnational law lens illuminates the rather larger subject areas of unenvironmental law and unclean energy law.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law
EditorsPeer Zumbansen
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages247-268
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)9780197547410
ISBN (Print)0197547419;9780197547410;
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Publication series

SeriesThe Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law

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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Social Sciences

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