Despite scientific warnings and accelerating impacts, meaningful political measures to halt environmental destruction and hold corporate polluters accountable remain persistently insufficient. Environmental law, in particular, lags behind the imperative of bringing global development within planetary boundaries. Against this backdrop, this two-day workshop examines legal strategies to pursue justice on a burning planet by (1) pushing the boundaries of existing law through novel interpretations and applications of legal norms, as seen in the transnational movement for climate litigation, and (2) renewing the law by developing new legal concepts, such as in the global campaign to recognize ecocide as a crime in national and international law.
Venue:
Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability"/ DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit"
