Ten Years On

Rethinking Transnational Environmental Law

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ID4610011
AuthorsThijs Etty (corresponding author), Veerle Heyvaert (0000-0002-7615-0318), Cinnamon Carlarne, Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne, Bruce Huber, J Peel (0000-0002-2880-169X), Josephine Van Zeben (0000-0002-2277-4475)
Year2021
Volume10
Issue3
Pages391-400
Publication date2021-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransnational Environmental Law (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2047-1025 • E-ISSN: 2047-1033
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s2047102521000303
OpenAlexW3214487138
LanguageEN
References cited6

This issue brings to a close the first full decade of Transnational Environmental Law (TEL). It is sobering to consider the shape of the world in 2011 and to remember our ignorance of the events to come. The global stage is always a roiling mix of disparate forces, but between the ascendance of the populist right, COVID-19, Brexit, the rise and decline (and rise?) of ISIS, and the ongoing escalation of climate-related emergencies, it seems that TEL's initial ten years witnessed more than their share of global turmoil. In strictly legal terms there were unexpected developments that became core areas of relevance to this journal. The emergence of environmental litigation in China, for example, has been a striking shift, the magnitude of which could not easily have been foreseen at TEL's inception. 1 The 'rights of nature' as a feature of legislation and constitutional law, though emergent in the 2000s, has bubbled to the surface in additional jurisdictions over the last decade, 2 and the Paris Agreement 3 marked a significant departure from earlier approaches to climate change under international law. 4 1

Law and economics · Physics · Political science · Sociology · Environmental law and policy · International Environmental Law and Policies · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Mathematics

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