"Climate Change and the Law" is the first scholarly effort to
systematically address doctrinal issues related to climate law as
an emergent legal discipline. It assembles some of the most
recognized experts in the field to identify relevant trends and
common themes from a variety of geographic and professional
perspectives.
In a remarkably short time span, climate change has become
deeply embedded in important areas of the law. As a global
challenge calling for collective action, climate change has
elicited substantial rulemaking at the international plane,
percolating through the broader legal system to the regional,
national and local levels. More than other areas of law, the
normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has
embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries
between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and
procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays
that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of
climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as
international trade law.
"Climate Change and the Law" explores the rich diversity of
international, regional, national, sub-national and transnational
legal responses to climate change. Is climate law emerging as a new
legal discipline? If so, what shared objectives and concepts define
it? How does climate law relate to other areas of law? Such
questions lie at the heart of this new book, whose thirty chapters
cover doctrinal questions as well as a range of thematic and
regional case studies. As Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary
of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), states in her preface, these chapters collectively
provide a review of the emergence of a new discipline, its core
principles and legal techniques, and its relationship and potential
interaction with other disciplines. "
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