Abstract
‘Climate law’, as a sub-discipline has emerged with great speed and confidence. In less than a decade, a large dedicated literature has emerged and at least two specialist journals. Conferences are regularly held around the world and specialist programmes and courses offered by leading law schools. The legal literature on climate change is sophisticated and wide ranging, addressing specific issues in the international climate regime, that regime’s relationship with other bodies of law (trade, IP, forestry, human rights, etc), the myriad mitigation mechanisms and the range of regional and national legal responses. This is a remarkable development, swifter and less regionally delimited than previous ‘mushrooms’, such as the law of the WTO or IP/IT law and EU law before them. Growth in legal scholarship has tracked responses in other social sciences (although it naturally lags behind the physical sciences) and policy contexts to what is routinely described as the ‘greatest challenge of our times’.
Published Version
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call