Law, Justice and Ecology
About the Book Series
In an age of climate change, scarcity of resources, and the deployment of new technologies that put into question the very idea of the 'natural', this book series offers a cross-disciplinary, novel engagement with the connections between law and ecology. The fundamental challenge taken up by the series concerns the pressing need to interrogate and to re-imagine prevailing conceptions of legal responsibility, legal community and legal subjectivity, by embracing the wider recognition that human existence is materially embedded in living systems and shared with multiple networks of non-humans.
Encouraging cross-disciplinary engagement and reflection upon relevant empirical, policy and theoretical issues, the series pursues a thoroughgoing, radical and timely exploration of the multiple relationships between law, justice and ecology.
Children as Climate Citizens: A Sociolegal Approach to Public Participation
1st Edition
By Kata Dozsa
April 14, 2025
This book provides a socio-legal analysis of the public participation of children in climate change matters, whilst developing a range of tools through which their participation can be increased. Climate change affects young people in many ways: causing severe threats to child survival, health and...
Earth Trusteeship and the Sovereign State: Transforming International Environmental Law
1st Edition
By Klaus Bosselmann
March 31, 2025
This book makes an argument for the legal role and responsibility of sovereign states in the trusteeship of the Earth. In 1972, the first photo of the Earth – Blue Marble – sparked the imagination and need to care for our planet. In the same year, the world’s first UN conference on the environment ...
Global Animal Law from the Margins: International Trade in Animals and their Bodies
1st Edition
By Iyan Offor
December 19, 2024
This book critically engages the emerging field of global animal law from the perspective of an intersectional ethical framework. Reconceptualising global animal law, this book argues that global animal law overrepresents views from the west as it does not sufficiently engage views from the Global...
Human Rights Approaches to Planetary Crises: From Climate Change to Plastic Pollution
1st Edition
By Samvel Varvastian
November 11, 2024
This book analyses over 20 years of rights-based litigation in the areas of climate change and plastic pollution in order to assess the value of rights in confronting and overcoming planetary crises. We live in an age of planetary crises such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and plastic ...
Law, Animals and Toxicity Testing: The Case of the Laboratory Mouse
1st Edition
By Anne M. Wordsworth
September 02, 2024
Drawing on our growing knowledge of animal cognition, this book provides a critical analysis of the use of animals in the legal regime and the practice of toxicity testing. Although animal abuse has become a major issue, animal testing remains largely in the shadows, even though it involves ...
Rights for Ecosystem Services: Local Communities and the Rights of Nature
1st Edition
By Giulia Sajeva
August 12, 2024
This book analyses how protecting the rights of local communities can contribute to the alleviation of ecological harms through the development of an innovative 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework. Ecosystem services describe the range of social, ecological, and economic benefits that ...
Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon: The Lawness of Life
1st Edition
By Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio
February 06, 2024
Extending law beyond the human, the book probes the conceptual openings, methodological challenges and ethical conundrums of law in a time of deep socio-ecological disturbances and transitions. How do we learn and practice law across epistemic and ontological difference? What sort of methodologies ...
Posthuman Legal Subjectivity: Reimagining the Human in the Anthropocene
1st Edition
By Jana Norman
May 31, 2023
This book provides a reimagining of how Western law and legal theory structures the human–earth relationship. As a complement to contemporary efforts to establish rights of nature and non-human legal personhood, this book focuses on the other subject in the human–earth relationship: the human. ...
Forging a Socio-Legal Approach to Environmental Harms: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Tiffany Bergin, Emanuela Orlando
December 19, 2018
Environmental harms exert a significant toll and pose substantial economic costs on societies around the world. Although such harms have been studied from both legal and social science perspectives, these disciplinary-specific approaches are not, on their own, fully able to address the complexity ...
Law as if Earth Really Mattered: The Wild Law Judgment Project
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicole Rogers, Michelle Maloney
August 23, 2018
This book is a collection of judgments drawn from the innovative Wild Law Judgment Project. In participating in the Wild Law Judgment Project, which was inspired by various feminist judgment projects, contributors have creatively reinterpreted judicial decisions from an Earth-centred point of view ...
The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights
1st Edition
By Joshua C. Gellers
August 23, 2018
Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions. Interestingly, these countries vary widely in terms of geography, politics, history, resources, and wealth. This raises the ...
Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Thomas-Pellicer, Vito De Lucia, Sian Sullivan
November 22, 2017
Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments is a preliminary contribution to the establishment of re-embodiments as a theoretical strand within legal and ecological theory, and philosophy. Re-embodiments are all those contemporary practices and processes that exceed the ...