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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2025
Print publication year:
2025
Online ISBN:
9781009655859

Book description

The impact of climate change on young people and future generations has become a key issue globally, and current international law-making processes insufficiently represent the interests of these groups. While ideally the interests of future generations would be mainstreamed, the authors argue that proxy-style mechanisms for representing future generations should urgently be pursued as a parallel strategy. This book analyses existing institutions in the UN which indirectly represent vulnerable groups and uses a novel combination of legal and philosophical methods based in the tradition of John Dewey's pragmatism and International Legal Realism. Chapters include case studies of climate change cases brought before international courts, tribunals and the UN envoy to demonstrate how representation of future generations can be implemented to bring about institutional reforms. Written in accessible language, it will make a useful reference for researchers, graduate students and policymakers in international environmental law, global environmental governance and environmental philosophy.

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Contents

  • Representing Future Generations
    pp i-i
  • Series page - Series page
    pp ii-ii
  • Representing Future Generations - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Climate Change and the Global Legal Order
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Contents
    pp v-viii
  • Preface
    pp ix-x
  • 1 - Introduction
    pp 1-20
  • Part I - Normative Framework
    pp 21-90
  • Justifying Representation of Future Generations
  • 2 - Proxy Representation and the Global Legal Order
    pp 23-47
  • Integrating Philosophical and Legal Perspectives
  • 3 - The Democratic Ideal and Its Normative Value for Future Generations
    pp 48-90
  • Part II - International Law and Institutions
    pp 91-142
  • 4 - Criteria for Evaluating Mechanisms for Representation of Future Generations
    pp 93-115
  • 5 - Lessons from Existing International Institutions to Represent Vulnerable Groups
    pp 116-142
  • Part III - Case Studies
    pp 143-232
  • 6 - The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and Proxy Representation of Future Generations
    pp 145-177
  • 7 - A UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Case Study
    pp 178-199
  • The Sacchi et al. Case
  • 8 - A UN Special Envoy for Future Generations
    pp 200-219
  • 9 - Conclusion
    pp 220-232
  • Index
    pp 233-234

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