Representing Future Generations: Climate Change and the Global Legal Order - Hardcover

Lawrence, Peter; Reder, Michael

 
9781009655866: Representing Future Generations: Climate Change and the Global Legal Order
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1009655868 ISBN 13: 9781009655866
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

This book presents the first theory of proxy representation in the international legal order in the context of climate change.

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About the Authors

Peter Lawrence is an Adjunct Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Peter holds a Ph.D. in international law from Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He works closely with philosophers and has been a visiting scholar at the Munich School of Philosophy, Germany, the Ethics Institute, Utecht University, The Netherlands, and the Australian National University (ANU) College of Law, Canberra, Australia. He is the author of Justice for Future Generations: Climate Change and International Law (2014) and co-editor of Giving Future Generations a Voice: Normative Frameworks, Institutions and Practice (2021) and a contributor to the Oxford Handbook on International Environmental Law (2021).

Michael Reder is a Professor of Practical Philosophy with a focus on social and political philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy. He earned his doctorate in 2006 with a dissertation on the Global Governance paradigm and completed his habilitation in 2011 at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. He has conceived and led numerous research collaborations on topics such as representation & democracy, climate change & justice, and politics & transnational solidarity. He has been a visiting scholar at Ateneo de Manila University, the University of Cambridge, Fordham University/New York, and Georgetown University/Washington, DC. He is also the author of numerous books, including Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability (2012) together with Edenhofer et al., Philosophie pluraler Gesellschaften (2018) and Tamoudi & Faets, Politik der Zukunft and Zukünftig Generationen als Leerstelle der Demokratie (2020).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009655868
ISBN 13 
9781009655866
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
250