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Cover Posthuman Legalities
Posthuman Legalities
New Materialism and Law Beyond the Human
Edited by Anna Grear, Emille Boulot, Iván D. Vargas-Roncancio, and Joshua Sterlin
How might law address the multiple crises of meaning intrinsic to global crises of climate, poverty, mass displacements, ecological breakdown, species extinctions and technological developments that increasingly complicate the very notion of 'life' itself? How can law embrace — in other words —the 'posthuman' condition — a condition in which non-human forces such as climate change and Covid-19 signal the impossibility of clinging to the existing imaginaries of Western legal systems and international law? This carefully curated book addresses these and related questions, bringing 'law beyond the human' (drawing on Indigenous legalities, life ways and ontologies) and New Materialist and Posthuman/ist approaches into stimulating proximity to each other.
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Monograph Book
Published:
14 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802203349
Collection:
Law 2021
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Giving Future Generations a Voice
Normative Frameworks, Institutions and Practice
Edited by Jan Linehan and Peter Lawrence
This important book focuses on how newly emerging institutions for future generations can contribute to tackling large scale global environmental problems, such as threats to biodiversity and climate change. It is especially timely given the new global impetus for decarbonisation, as well as the huge growth of climate litigation and climate protest movements, often led by young people.
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Monograph Book
Published:
12 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108259
Collection:
Law 2021
Cover From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion
From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion
New Protest Movements Shaping our Future
Edited by Benjamin J. Richardson
Across the world, millions of people are taking to the streets demanding urgent action on climate breakdown and other environmental emergencies. Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future and Climate Strikes are part of a new lexicon of environmental protest advocating civil disobedience to leverage change. This groundbreaking book – also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment – critically unveils the legal and political context of this new wave of eco-activisms. It illustrates how the practise of dissent builds on a long tradition of grassroots activism, such as the Anti-Nuclear movement, but brings into focus new participants, such as school children, and new distinctive aesthetic tactics, such as the mass ‘die-ins’ and ‘discobedience’ theatrics in public spaces.
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Monograph Book
Published:
17 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800881099
Collection:
Law 2020
Cover Human Dignity and the Adjudication of Environmental Rights
Human Dignity and the Adjudication of Environmental Rights
Dina L. Townsend
Focusing on contemporary debates in philosophy and legal theory, this ground-breaking book provides a compelling enquiry into the nature of human dignity. The author not only illustrates that dignity is a concept that can extend our understanding of our environmental impacts and duties, but also highlights how our reliance on and relatedness to the environment further extends and enhances our understanding of dignity itself.
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Monograph Book
Published:
10 Jun 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789905946
Collection:
Law 2020
Cover Mega-Dams and Indigenous Human Rights
Mega-Dams and Indigenous Human Rights
Itzchak Kornfeld
This original and insightful book explores and examines the impact that building mega-dams has on the human rights of those living in surrounding areas, and in particular those of indigenous peoples who are often most affected. Compiling case studies from around the world, Itzchak Kornfeld provides clear examples of how human rights violations are perpetrated and compounded, with chapters examining historical, recent and ongoing dam projects.
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Monograph Book
Published:
10 Jan 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786435491
Collection:
Law 2020
Cover Thought, Law, Rights and Action in the Age of Environmental Crisis
Thought, Law, Rights and Action in the Age of Environmental Crisis
Edited by Anna Grear and Evadne Grant
In the climate-pressed Anthropocene epoch, nothing could be more urgent than fresh engagements with the fractious relationships between ‘humanity’, law and the living order. This collection draws together theoretical reflections, doctrinal analyses and insights drawn from rights-based praxis to offer thoughtful – and at times provocative – engagements with the limitations of law at it faces the complexities of contemporary socio-ecological life-worlds in an age of climate crisis.
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Monograph Book
Published:
31 Jul 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784711337
Collection:
Law 2015
Cover Research Handbook on International Energy Law
Research Handbook on International Energy Law
Edited by Kim Talus
International energy law is an elusive but important concept. There is no body of law called ‘international energy law’, nor is there any universally accepted definition for it, yet many specialised areas of international law have a direct relationship with energy policy. The Research Handbook on International Energy Law examines various aspects of international energy law and offers a comprehensive account of its basic concepts and processes.
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Handbook
Published:
25 Apr 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781002209
Collection:
Law 2014
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Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples
The Search for Legal Remedies
Edited by Randall S. Abate and Elizabeth Ann Kronk
Indigenous peoples occupy a unique niche within the climate justice movement, as many indigenous communities live subsistence lifestyles that are severely disrupted by the effects of climate change. Additionally, in many parts of the world, domestic law is applied differently to indigenous peoples than it is to their non-indigenous peers, further complicating the quest for legal remedies. The contributors to this book bring a range of expert legal perspectives to this complex discussion, offering both a comprehensive explanation of climate change-related problems faced by indigenous communities and a breakdown of various real world attempts to devise workable legal solutions. Regions covered include North and South America (Brazil, Canada, the US and the Arctic), the Pacific Islands (Fiji, Tuvalu and the Federated States of Micronesia), Australia and New Zealand, Asia (China and Nepal) and Africa (Kenya).
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Monograph Book
Published:
31 Jan 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781001806
Collection:
Law 2013
Cover Environmental Justice and Federalism
Environmental Justice and Federalism
Dennis C. Cory, Tauhidur Rahman, Satheesh Aradhyula, Melissa Anne Burns, and Miles H. Kiger
The authors discuss two case studies in their investigation of the complex interactions between environmental justice and government. These analyses offer a comprehensive view of both the siting and regulation of polluting activities, as well as a discussion of the effects on major natural resources such as clean air and drinking water. In each case, the authors both describe current government responses to the problem and offer specific recommendations regarding what actions should be taken in the future.
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Monograph Book
Published:
28 Dec 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781001400
Collection:
Law 2012
Cover Genetic Resources, Equity and International Law
Genetic Resources, Equity and International Law
Camena Guneratne
This book examines current developments in international law which regulate the uses of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, and the various property regimes which are applied to these resources by these international agreements.
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Monograph Book
Published:
28 Dec 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857934956
Collection:
Law 2012