Climate Change on Trial: Mobilizing Human Rights Litigation to Accelerate Climate Action
Author:   César Rodríguez-Garavito (New York University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009644327


Pages:   128
Publication Date:   26 June 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Climate Change on Trial: Mobilizing Human Rights Litigation to Accelerate Climate Action


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This Element tells the twenty-year socio-legal story of human rights-based climate change litigation. Based on an original database of the totality of rights-based climate change (RCC) lawsuits around the world as well as interviews with leading actors and participant observation in the field, the Element explains the rise and global diffusion of RCC litigation. It combines insights from global governance, international law, climate policy, human rights, and legal mobilization theory in order to offer a socio-legal account of the actors, strategies, and norms that have emerged at the intersection of human rights and climate governance. By proposing a broad understanding of the impacts of legal mobilization that includes direct and indirect, material and symbolic effects, it documents the contributions and shortcomings of human rights litigation in addressing the climate emergency. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Author:   César Rodríguez-Garavito (New York University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009644327


ISBN 10:   1009644327
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   26 June 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Putting Climate Change on Trial; 2. Explaining the Rights Turn: Legal Opportunities and Mobilizing Frames at the Intersection of Human Rights and Climate Governance; 3. The Shape of the Field: Issues, Venues, Actors, and Strategies in Rights-Based Climate Litigation; 4. Addressing the Unique Challenges of Global Warming: The Evolving Law of Human Rights and Climate Change; 5. The Impact of Rights-Based Climate Litigation: Typology and Illustrations; 6. Looking Ahead: Lessons, Blind Spots, and the Potential of Rights-Based Climate Litigation.

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