Year: 2022
Type: book
Abstract: As the climate emergency intensifies, rights-based climate cases – litigation that is based on human rights law – are becoming an increasingly important tool for securing more ambitious climate action. This book is the first to offer a systematic analysis of the universe of these cases known as human rights and climate change (HRCC) cases. By combining theory, empirical documentation, and strategic debate among preeminent scholars and practitioners from around the world, the book captures the roots, legal innovations, empirical richness, impact, and challenges of this dynamic field of sociolegal practice. It looks specifically at the sociolegal origins and trajectory of HRCC cases, the legal innovations of this type of litigation, and the strategies and impacts of these cases. In doing so, this book equips litigators, researchers, practitioners, students, and concerned citizens with an understanding of an important method of holding governments and corporations accountable for climate harms. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Authors: César Rodríguez-Garavito, Lisa Vanhala, Ben Batros, Tessa Khan, Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta, Siri Gloppen, James A. Goldston, Juan Auz, Sophie Marjanac, Sam Hunter Jones, Ashfaq Khalfan, Jolene Lin, Jacqueline Peel, Joana Setzer, Michael Burger, Jessica Wentz, Daniel J. Metzger, Richard Heede, Reinhold Gallmetzer, Kelly Matheson, Laura Gyte, Violeta Barrera, Lucy Singer, Victoria Adelmant, Philip Alston, Matthew Blainey, Michelle Jonker-Argueta
Institution: New York University
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4308640907