Climate Change Litigation
A Handbook
Climate Change Litigation - Liability and Damages from a Comparative Perspective investigates and discusses the respective issues arising in the current discourse on climate protection from different legal perspectives (including International law, European law and national public and civil law). In particular, it addresses the issue of "climate protection by courts".
It gives an overview about important jurisdictions in the field of Climate Change Litigation, including inter alia the US, Canada, Australia, UK, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Brazil and Germany.
The evergreater, more wide-spread, and more violent effects of climate change in recent history have brought forth an unprecedented rise in societal discourse in the field of climate change. Naturally, this discourse is portrayed with its concomitant effects in court: The lawsuits initiated by human rights organisations against large corporations (e.g. against the energy giant RWE before German Courts) and states (e.g. against the Netherlands) have attracted significant media attention especially.
As a result, climate change litigation is in the course of establishing itself into an independent branch of environmental law and international law which is most likely to be one of the major legal markets of the future.
Building upon this, Climate Change Litigation - Liability and Damages from a Comparative Perspective aims to pave the way for research in the field of climate change litigation, which up to this point has surprisingly remained untrodden ground in Germany or Europe.
Published as a handbook, this text provides answers and ideas both to scholars and practitioners in this legal field. Furthermore, it is guaranteed to provide an overview of the latest news in cases and progress in the field of climate change litigation.
Outline of the HandbookFundamental questions of climate change litigationProcedural Issues and Conflict of LawsState Liability under International and European LawDuties of protection following from Human RightsClimate Change Litigation - National ReportsLiability for Climate Damages - Germany as an International Pioneer?
The editors
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Kahl is Director of the Institute for German and European Administrative Law at Heidelberg University. He is also the Director of the Research Centre for Sustainability Law. His focused areas of research include Administrative Law, Environmental Law, European and International Administrative Law, and Constitutional Law.
Prof. Dr. Marc-Philippe Weller is Director of the Institute of Conflict of Laws, Comparative Law and International Business Law at Heidelberg University.
The authors are leading scholars and practitioners from all over the world in the field of climate change litigation.
The target group
For practitioners and academics in the field of Climate Change Litigation or Environmental law and International law.
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Veröffentlichung: | 28.12.2020 |
Höhe/Breite/Gewicht | H 24 cm / B 16 cm / 1109 g |
Seiten | 565 |
Art des Mediums | Buch [Gebundenes Buch] |
Preis DE | EUR 200.00 |
Preis AT | EUR 205.70 |
Auflage | 1. Auflage |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-406-74389-4 |
ISBN-10 | 3406743897 |
Über den Autor
Wolfgang Kahl (born 1965) studied law and political science at the Universities of Augsburg, Munich and Speyer. He received his doctorate from the Law Faculty of the University of Augsburg in 1992 (thesis: Umweltprinzip und Gemeinschaftsrecht, 1993). In 1999 he habilitated in Augsburg (habilitation: Die Staatsaufsicht, 2000) and in 2000 accepted a call to a chair in Public Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Giessen. In 2004 he accepted a call to the University of Bayreuth and in 2009 another call to the University of Heidelberg. There he has since been director of the Institute for German and European Administrative Law and the Research Center for Sustainability Law.
Paul Hüther (born 1996) studied law at the University of Heidelberg. Since 2020, he has been working as a research assistant at the Institute for German and European Administrative Law at the same university, and since 2022, he has been a legal trainee at Heidelberg Regional Court.