Transnational Environmental Law in the Anthropocene

Emily Webster is Senior Research Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute and member of the Climate Law & Governance Centre at King’s College London. Her doctoral research is concerned with the role and influence of transnational climate change law and governance upon the state in facilitating the energy transition. Laura Mai is Senior Research Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute and member of the Climate Law & Governance Centre at King’s College London. Laura’s doctoral research explores the role of local governments and financial institutions in implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

Introduction: Transnational environmental law in the Anthropocene

Emily Webster and Laura Mai

1. Two layers of self-regulation

J. E. Viñuales

2. Ecological law in the Anthropocene

Peter D Burdon

3. Environmental trusteeship and state sovereignty: can they be reconciled?

Klaus Bosselmann

4. Restoration and cooperation for flourishing socio-ecological landscapes

Afshin Akhtar-Khavari

5. Earth system law for the Anthropocene: rethinking environmental law alongside the Earth system metaphor

Louis J. Kotzé

6. (Transnational) law for the Anthropocene: revisiting Jessup’s move from ‘what?’ to ‘how?’

Laura Mai

7. Urgent agenda: how climate litigation builds transnational narratives

Phillip Paiement

8. Litigation and regulatory governance in the age of the Anthropocene: the case of fracking in the Karoo

Melanie Murcott and Emily Webster

9. The myth of mermaids and stewardship of the seas

Emily Barritt

10. To the Anthropocene and beyond: the responsibility of law in decimating and protecting marine life

Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny

11. Regimes of waste (im)perceptibility in the life cycle of metal

Tina Beigi and Michael Hennessy Picard