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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law |
Editors | Peer Zumbansen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 247-268 |
Number of pages | 22 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780197547410 |
ISBN (Print) | 0197547419;9780197547410; |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Publication series
Series | The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law |
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Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Oxford University Press 2021.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- General Social Sciences