Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Current scholarly discourse is dominated by stories about the role of strategic litigation as a mechanism for forcing public action in relation to climate change. While such stories are satisfying, they are not necessarily meaningful because they narrow the intellectual field of vision. By using an essay by Ursula Le Guin on narrative forms, I show that other more meaningful narratives are possible to tell. Narratives that encompass a bigger picture and, in so doing, draw attention to how public law is a resource for the institutional and reasoning capacity required for responding to the polycentric and multivalent nature of climate change. Such capacity does not provide a ‘solution’ to climate change but does underscore the need to foster legal and scholarly expertise and imagination in relation to climate change and public law.
Source: Journal of Environmental Law
DOI: 10.1093/jel/eqae028
Author: Elizabeth Fisher
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,116
Funder: Leverhulme Trust
OpenAlex ID: W4405388646