An Interdisciplinary Study On Constitutionalizing Climate Justice Through Biomedical Innovation
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The global legal landscape is witnessing a ‘constitutional turn’ in environmental litigation. As the physical impacts of climate change intensify, litigants are shifting from administrative challenges toward fundamental rights‑based claims. Courts across jurisdictions are recognizing a ‘right against climate change’ through doctrines such as the Living Tree, proportionality, and intergenerational equity. At the same time, pharmaceutical sciences are innovating drug delivery systems—nano carriers, inhalable formulations, and sustained-release implants—to mitigate climate-linked health burdens. Through this study, the researcher integrates jurisprudential and biomedical perspectives, arguing that climate justice must extend to drug administration. By combining constitutional principles of fairness, intergenerational responsibility, and ecological sustainability with pharmaceutical innovation, the study proposes a justice-oriented framework for climate-health governance in the Anthropocene(1). It concludes that while the right presents significant challenges to the doctrine of polycentricity, it serves as an essential ‘intertemporal guarantee of freedom' in the Anthropocene (1,2).
Authors: Mridusmita Baruah, Dr Aparajita Baruah
Institution: Gauhati University
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7154370471