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The Geography Of Climate Change Litigation: Implications For Transnational Regulatory Governance, Hari M. Osofsky
The Geography Of Climate Change Litigation: Implications For Transnational Regulatory Governance, Hari M. Osofsky
Hari Osofsky
This Article aims to forward the dialogue about transnational regulatory governance through a law and geography analysis of climate change litigation. Part II begins by considering fundamental barriers to responsible transnational energy production. Part III proposes a place-based approach to dissecting climate change litigation and a model for understanding its spatial implications. Parts IV through VI map representative examples of climate change litigation in subnational, national, and supranational fora. The Article concludes by exploring the normative implications of this descriptive geography; it engages the intersection of international law, international relations, and geography as a jumping-off point for a companion article.
The Geography Of Climate Change Litigation Part 2: Narratives Of Nation-States And Thirdspace, Hari M. Osofsky
The Geography Of Climate Change Litigation Part 2: Narratives Of Nation-States And Thirdspace, Hari M. Osofsky
Hari Osofsky
This article aims to interweave two current crises for law and policy in the United States: (1) the extent of our commitment to international law and (2) the approach we will take to regulating global climate change. It argues that achieving progress on both fronts requires interrogating the geographic assumptions in major conceptual approaches to international legal theory and the implications of those assumptions for their narratives of climate change litigation. To that end, it develops a taxonomy of international legal theory based on how those approaches view nation-state spaces—Westphalian, modified Westphalian, pluralist, and critical—and considers how a law and …