INTRODUCTION
Sustainability concerns such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequality are the defining issues of our time (Dyer 2024; Hickel 2020; Steffen et al 2015). The relationship between these issues and human activities is, to a notable extent, influenced by legal ideas on the rights, freedoms, and duties of different parties such as individuals, firms, and states. These ideas delineate who is allowed to do what in relation to uses of land, CO₂ emissions, human rights violations, and other sustainability issues. They are central to whether we can(not) address them effectively. Contemporary legal ideas are typically embedded in a liberal democratic discourse that divides human activities into separate private and public realms … (more)
[Constantijn Aartsen, Transformative Private Law Blog, 4 November 2024]
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