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Climate Change Meets The Law Of The Horse, J.B. Ruhl, James Salzman
Climate Change Meets The Law Of The Horse, J.B. Ruhl, James Salzman
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The climate change policy debate has only recently turned its full attention to adaptation - how to address the impacts of climate change we have already begun to experience and that will likely increase over time. Legal scholars have in turn begun to explore how the many different fields of law will and should respond. During this nascent period, one overarching question has gone unexamined: how will the legal system as a whole organize around climate change adaptation? Will a new distinct field of climate change adaptation law and policy emerge, or will legal institutions simply work away at the …