Law Commons^™

The only possible political force in the direction of an Ecology of law is from the bottom up, in a sort of Archimedean push determined by the sinking of global capitalism.  In the law, this means that the institutional transformation that can “change everything” can only be in the horizontal, diffused, domain of private law. Finally, private law has to carry directly its responsibility outside of the alibi produced by the fantasy that public law can do the trick.

The questions are: what kind of private law can carry the very heavy burden of an ecological transformation? What does an …