Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action

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Litigating the Climate Emergency

How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action

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Edited by César Rodríguez-Garavito, New York University

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2022
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781009106214
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009106214
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Public International Law, Law, Human Rights, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
Series:: Globalization and Human Rights

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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.

‘… a successful anthology that complements the existing literature on climate litigation research, particularly due to its chapters on legal sociology, the numerous perspectives from and for practitioners, and the explicit inclusion of and reflection on climate litigation in the Global South. … these previously unknown and innovative perspectives on the phenomenon of climate litigation are a great asset for a hopefully broad readership from academia, practice, and society.’

Michael Kalis Source: Heidelberg Journal of International Law

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