Manuela Niehaus

Global Climate Constitutionalism ¿from below¿

The Role of Climate Change Litigation for International Climate Lawmaking

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Global climate constitutionalism is seen as a possible legal answer to the social and political unwillingness of states to effectively tackle climate change as a global problem. The constitutionalisation of international climate law is supposed to ensure greater participation of non-state actors such as NGOs or individuals and a rollback of state sovereignty where states do not care about meeting their climate commitments. This book addresses the question of whether non-state actors such as NGOs or individuals create international climate law through so-called climate change litigation. Against the background of Peter Häberle's theory of the "open society of constitutional interpreters", four selected cases (Urgenda v Netherlands, Leghari v Pakistan, Juliana v United States of America, Future Generations v Colombia) are used to examine how actors not formally recognized as subjects of international law (re)interpret national and international law and thereby contribute to theconstitutionalisation of the international climate law regime.

Produktdetails

• Climate Change Management
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-658-43190-7
• 1st ed. 2023
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9783658431907
• ISBN-10: 3658431903
• Artikelnr.: 69012677

Autorenporträt

Manuela Niehaus is a postdoctoral research associate at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. She is a fully qualified lawyer and holds a PhD from the University of Hamburg and Macquarie University (Sydney). Her research focuses on international environmental and climate change law.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Interpretation in international law.- Constitution, constitutionalisation and constitutionalism.- Climate justice and transnational climate constitutionalism.- Transnational solidarity.- Deliberation and CCL.- Societal constitutionalism.- The actors.- Interpretation by non-state actors in CCL cases.- The role of the courts in CCL.- Conclusion.