Sustainability, Human Rights and Climate Justice

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-83970-645-5
Verlag: Lefebvre Belgium sa

Buch, Englisch, 422 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

In the face of an accelerating climate crisis and ongoing political fragmentation, the twin challenges of sustainability and climate justice are confronting national and international law and legal practice in new ways, demanding innovation and fresh thinking across multiple domains.

This book brings together leading experts from across Europe and from North and South America representing academia, legal practice, and the judiciary. It assesses existing legal instruments across various domains that intersect with sustainability and climate law, and considers the development of new instruments to accelerate progress towards environmental sustainability, protection of human rights, and climate justice.

Taken as a whole, this edited collection covers a wide range of topics from both public and private law, demonstrating how climate change and sustainability are affecting virtually every field of law and, in the process, opening up new opportunities for dialogue and engagement with partners from government, civil society, academia, and the private sector. The volume is organised into five main sections: Corporate Law, Trade Law, Patent Law, Consumer Law, and Climate Litigation.

The book is based on three annual conferences of the European Law Institute (ELI) project on “Climate Justice – New Challenges for Law and Judges”, held in Ferrara and Leuven, as well as on a series of seminars held within the framework of the ELI “Sustainability and Environmental Law Special Interest Group”.

Written for scholars, practitioners, judges, and legislators, this edited collection provides innovative perspectives on some of the most important legal challenges posed by the climate crisis, establishing a solid foundation for further developments in national and international law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

De Franceschi, Alberto

Boyd, William

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht

Über Autor(innen)

Boyd, William
Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair at the UCLA School of Law, Professor at UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability, and Faculty Co-Director at the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

De Franceschi, Alberto
Dr Alberto De Franceschi is a Research Fellow and Assistant Professor of Private Law at the University of Ferrara as well as a Research Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 2008 to 2013 he was a scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich and in 2013-2014 a visiting fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law of the University of Oxford. He is a founding member and an editor of the Journal on European Consumer and Market Law and of the Italian Law Journal.