Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1021449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaretha |
| FAMILY NAME | Wewerinke-Singh |
| SIGNATURE | WEWERINKE-SINGH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7782-1857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
State Continuity, Self-Determination and Sea-Level Rise
This article contends that anthropogenic sea-level rise seriously undermines the exercise of self-determination by peoples living in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Moreover, it argues that the effects of this would be severely exacerbated if the international community were to reject the possibility of statehood enduring notwithstanding total submergence, the complete loss of inhabitable land or the mass exodus of extant populations. In s…
Commentary to the Maastricht Principles on the Human Rights of Future Generations
Legal mobilization in a global context: The Transnational Practices and Diffusion of Rights-Based Climate Litigation
Our article offers an in-depth account of the role of the transnational practices of collaboration, storytelling, and learning in the diffusion of rights-based climate litigation (RBCL). Drawing on semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and quantitative data, we trace how the performance of these practices by lawyers, litigants, communities, scholars, and NGOs have fostered and sustained the transnational generation, exchange, and f…
Conceptualizing just transition litigation
Towards a Non-Use Regime on Solar Geoengineering: Lessons from International Law and Governance
In recent years, some scientists have called for research into and potential development of 'solar geoengineering' technologies as an option to counter global warming. Solar geoengineering refers to a set of speculative techniques to reflect some incoming sunlight back into space, for example, by continuously spraying reflective sulphur aerosols into the stratosphere over several generations. Because of the significant ecological, social, and pol…
Echoes Through Time: Transforming Climate Litigation Narratives on Future Generations
Storytelling is essential in climate litigation. The narratives that are told in and around legal cases shape public discourse and our collective imagination regarding the climate crisis. The stories that plaintiffs and their lawyers choose to highlight hold immense power to either reinforce or challenge dominant assumptions and worldviews. This article analyzes how storytelling has been utilized in climate lawsuits, with a particular focus on th…
The Role of Advocates in the Conception of Advisory Opinion Requests
Law, like medicine, is a practiced discipline, and the practice of international law is no exception. There are different contexts in which that practice unfolds. Here, our focus is on: (1) a specific form of practice, that of “advocates,” understood widely to include counsel advising or representing a party in legal proceedings, diplomats supporting a policy directive, and civil society activists advocating for legal causes; (2) engaging in diff…
In Defence of Future Generations: A Reply to Stephen Humphreys
In this reply to Stephen Humphreys, we challenge the dismissal of future generations as a locus of responsibility for present generations. Drawing from diverse sources such as indigenous law, environmental jurisprudence and practice, we demonstrate that global discourse on intergenerationality is broader and more nuanced than Humphreys suggests. Our response highlights the importance of incorporating diverse perspectives to enrich discourse and p…
The Rising Tide of Rights: Addressing Climate Loss and Damage through Rights-Based Litigation
This article offers a comprehensive analysis of rights-based climate litigation aimed at addressing climate change-induced loss and damage, underlining its potential as a transformative force amid the minimal progress towards a coordinated global response on this topic. It builds on literature highlighting the potential of rights-based climate litigation to fill the gap in accountability for climate change and its consequences, noting that resear…
Enabling the right to a healthy environment
Protecting Human Health from Climate Change: Legal Obligations and Avenues of Redress under International Law
In this contribution, we explore how human health can be protected from climate change and its adverse effects by reliance on States' obligations under international law. We achieved this by reviewing the principal legal instruments that establish the right to health, as well as those that recognize that climate change has an adverse impact on health (Part II). We then examine the means of redress that may be available to those whose human right …
When the kids put climate change on trial: Youth-focused rights-based climate litigation around the world
Young people are increasingly taking governments to court for their failure to meaningfully abate climate change. They argue that states have a responsibility under domestic and international law to protect, respect and fulfil the rights of children against worsening climate change. Such cases form a unique subset of rights-based climate change litigation due to their emphasis on intergenerational equity. Young people are disproportionately affec…
Eviction is not a disaster
Trust in Cash Assistance Programming: Addressing Mega Trend Changes through Disaster Management and Impact Assessment
Impact assessment faces challenges in dealing with the ‘magnitude, the speed and the complexity of current global problems and new societal dilemmas (needing) new facilitating strategic choices to achieve broader sustainability goals and objectives’ (Partidario Citation2020). The past is not necessarily a guide to future risk. Retief et al. (Citation2016) identified global megatrends of demographics, urbanization, technological innovation, power …
Rights-based approaches to climate decision-making
Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: Recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy
Recent evidence shows that climate change is leading to irreversible and existential impacts on vulnerable communities and countries across the globe. Among other effects, this has given rise to public debate and engagement around notions of climate crisis and emergency. The Loss and Damage (L&D) policy debate has emphasized these aspects over the last three decades. Yet, despite institutionalization through an article on L&D by the United Nation…
Exploring the Legal Basis of a Human Rights Approach to Climate Change
In this contribution, we consider the relevance of international human rights law to climate change. We review the widely agreed understanding that climate change interferes with human rights. We then examine how a particular State or States may be held responsible for internationally wrongful acts that are caused by contributions to climate change emanating from activities that are under that State's or those States’ jurisdiction. We focus on hu…
Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: Recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy
Recent evidence shows that climate change is leading to irreversible and existential impacts on vulnerable communities and countries across the globe. Among other effects, this has given rise to public debate and engagement around notions of climate crisis and emergency. The Loss and Damage (L&D) policy debate has emphasized these aspects over the last three decades. Yet, despite institutionalization through an article on L&D by the United Nation…
When the kids put climate change on trial: Youth-focused rights-based climate litigation around the world
Young people are increasingly taking governments to court for their failure to meaningfully abate climate change. They argue that states have a responsibility under domestic and international law to protect, respect and fulfil the rights of children against worsening climate change. Such cases form a unique subset of rights-based climate change litigation due to their emphasis on intergenerational equity. Young people are disproportionately affec…
Conceptualizing just transition litigation
In Defence of Future Generations: A Reply to Stephen Humphreys
In this reply to Stephen Humphreys, we challenge the dismissal of future generations as a locus of responsibility for present generations. Drawing from diverse sources such as indigenous law, environmental jurisprudence and practice, we demonstrate that global discourse on intergenerationality is broader and more nuanced than Humphreys suggests. Our response highlights the importance of incorporating diverse perspectives to enrich discourse and p…
The Rising Tide of Rights: Addressing Climate Loss and Damage through Rights-Based Litigation
This article offers a comprehensive analysis of rights-based climate litigation aimed at addressing climate change-induced loss and damage, underlining its potential as a transformative force amid the minimal progress towards a coordinated global response on this topic. It builds on literature highlighting the potential of rights-based climate litigation to fill the gap in accountability for climate change and its consequences, noting that resear…
Rights-based approaches to climate decision-making
Exploring the Legal Basis of a Human Rights Approach to Climate Change
In this contribution, we consider the relevance of international human rights law to climate change. We review the widely agreed understanding that climate change interferes with human rights. We then examine how a particular State or States may be held responsible for internationally wrongful acts that are caused by contributions to climate change emanating from activities that are under that State's or those States’ jurisdiction. We focus on hu…
Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: Recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy
Recent evidence shows that climate change is leading to irreversible and existential impacts on vulnerable communities and countries across the globe. Among other effects, this has given rise to public debate and engagement around notions of climate crisis and emergency. The Loss and Damage (L&D) policy debate has emphasized these aspects over the last three decades. Yet, despite institutionalization through an article on L&D by the United Nation…
Eviction is not a disaster
Trust in Cash Assistance Programming: Addressing Mega Trend Changes through Disaster Management and Impact Assessment
Impact assessment faces challenges in dealing with the ‘magnitude, the speed and the complexity of current global problems and new societal dilemmas (needing) new facilitating strategic choices to achieve broader sustainability goals and objectives’ (Partidario Citation2020). The past is not necessarily a guide to future risk. Retief et al. (Citation2016) identified global megatrends of demographics, urbanization, technological innovation, power …
Rights-based approaches to climate decision-making
Enabling the right to a healthy environment
Protecting Human Health from Climate Change: Legal Obligations and Avenues of Redress under International Law
In this contribution, we explore how human health can be protected from climate change and its adverse effects by reliance on States' obligations under international law. We achieved this by reviewing the principal legal instruments that establish the right to health, as well as those that recognize that climate change has an adverse impact on health (Part II). We then examine the means of redress that may be available to those whose human right …
When the kids put climate change on trial: Youth-focused rights-based climate litigation around the world
Young people are increasingly taking governments to court for their failure to meaningfully abate climate change. They argue that states have a responsibility under domestic and international law to protect, respect and fulfil the rights of children against worsening climate change. Such cases form a unique subset of rights-based climate change litigation due to their emphasis on intergenerational equity. Young people are disproportionately affec…
The Role of Advocates in the Conception of Advisory Opinion Requests
Law, like medicine, is a practiced discipline, and the practice of international law is no exception. There are different contexts in which that practice unfolds. Here, our focus is on: (1) a specific form of practice, that of “advocates,” understood widely to include counsel advising or representing a party in legal proceedings, diplomats supporting a policy directive, and civil society activists advocating for legal causes; (2) engaging in diff…
In Defence of Future Generations: A Reply to Stephen Humphreys
In this reply to Stephen Humphreys, we challenge the dismissal of future generations as a locus of responsibility for present generations. Drawing from diverse sources such as indigenous law, environmental jurisprudence and practice, we demonstrate that global discourse on intergenerationality is broader and more nuanced than Humphreys suggests. Our response highlights the importance of incorporating diverse perspectives to enrich discourse and p…
The Rising Tide of Rights: Addressing Climate Loss and Damage through Rights-Based Litigation
This article offers a comprehensive analysis of rights-based climate litigation aimed at addressing climate change-induced loss and damage, underlining its potential as a transformative force amid the minimal progress towards a coordinated global response on this topic. It builds on literature highlighting the potential of rights-based climate litigation to fill the gap in accountability for climate change and its consequences, noting that resear…
Conceptualizing just transition litigation
Towards a Non-Use Regime on Solar Geoengineering: Lessons from International Law and Governance
In recent years, some scientists have called for research into and potential development of 'solar geoengineering' technologies as an option to counter global warming. Solar geoengineering refers to a set of speculative techniques to reflect some incoming sunlight back into space, for example, by continuously spraying reflective sulphur aerosols into the stratosphere over several generations. Because of the significant ecological, social, and pol…
Echoes Through Time: Transforming Climate Litigation Narratives on Future Generations
Storytelling is essential in climate litigation. The narratives that are told in and around legal cases shape public discourse and our collective imagination regarding the climate crisis. The stories that plaintiffs and their lawyers choose to highlight hold immense power to either reinforce or challenge dominant assumptions and worldviews. This article analyzes how storytelling has been utilized in climate lawsuits, with a particular focus on th…
State Continuity, Self-Determination and Sea-Level Rise
This article contends that anthropogenic sea-level rise seriously undermines the exercise of self-determination by peoples living in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Moreover, it argues that the effects of this would be severely exacerbated if the international community were to reject the possibility of statehood enduring notwithstanding total submergence, the complete loss of inhabitable land or the mass exodus of extant populations. In s…
Commentary to the Maastricht Principles on the Human Rights of Future Generations
Legal mobilization in a global context: The Transnational Practices and Diffusion of Rights-Based Climate Litigation
Our article offers an in-depth account of the role of the transnational practices of collaboration, storytelling, and learning in the diffusion of rights-based climate litigation (RBCL). Drawing on semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and quantitative data, we trace how the performance of these practices by lawyers, litigants, communities, scholars, and NGOs have fostered and sustained the transnational generation, exchange, and f…
Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Climate change (10 works) · Environmental law and policy (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law and economics (7 works) · Business (6 works)