Comparing Legal Disciplines as an Approach to Understanding the Role of Law in Decarbonizing Societies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4610006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kaisa Huhta (0000-0001-9273-552X, Finnish Environment Institute, corresponding author), Seita Romppanen (Finnish Environment Institute) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 649-670 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transnational Environmental Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2047-1025 • E-ISSN: 2047-1033 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s204710252300016x |
| OpenAlex | W4387518171 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
Law plays an important role in reshaping and enforcing governance efforts in radical shifts and can function as a catalyst for transitioning governance towards sustainability. This article assesses the capacity of law to facilitate decarbonization as a radical societal shift. It argues that decarbonization demands fundamental and systemic restructuring in law and legal thinking. This should also be reflected in legal scholarship and, most importantly from the point of view of this article, in the methodological choices and approaches that legal scholarship relies on to study societal challenges. To that end, the article develops a new methodological approach (disciplinary comparison) through which to study law's capacities in respect of decarbonization as a radical societal shift. Disciplinary comparison can be used to gain information on both the friction and the synergies between legal disciplines. This new methodological approach will contribute to increasing insight into law's capacities for the radical, cross-sectoral change necessitated by the need to decarbonize societies
Corporate governance · Discipline · Economics · Empirical legal studies · Law and economics · Legal research · Management · Political science · Restructuring · Scholarship · Sociology · Sustainability · Environmental law and policy · Human Rights and Development · Law · Regulation and Compliance Studies
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2027 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |