The Evolution of Earth System Law: Innovating New Legal Principles for the Anthropocene

This session was organised by the Earth System Governance Taskforce on Earth System Law as part of the 2024 Forum on 'Re-imagining Earth System Governance in an Era of Polycrisis'.

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The concept of earth system law (ESL) is gaining increased traction. This event convenes a group of experts to take stock of ESL and its scholarship, and to trace future pathways for its development and potential impact. The discussion is organized around several chapters contained in a book-in-progress that has been submitted for publication consideration to ESG’s Cambridge University Press Series. We attempt to: 1) offer a comprehensive and consolidated in-depth reflection on earth system law, including a state-of-the-art analysis of its scholarship, concepts and emerging themes to date; 2) reflect on the identification and design of principles that could inform the development of earth system law as an episteme and term-of-art, a new framework for rethinking law in the Anthropocene, and to guide more radical and innovative approaches to better govern earth system transformations; and 3) identify future research themes and pathways for earth system law. The moderated discussion is led by the authors of these chapters, who each offer a lightening talk summarising each chapter, followed by an extensive round of collective reflections.

Speakers:
Louis J. Kotzé, North-West University
Rakhyun E. Kim, Utrecht University
Michael Leach, Tilburg University
Karen Morrow, Swansea University
Iván Dario Vargas Roncancio, York University
Michelle Lim, Singapore Management University
J. Michael Angstadt, Colorado College
Benoît Mayer, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Işık Girgiç, Utrecht University
Louise Du Toit, University of Southampton
Geoffrey Garver, McGill University
Rosalind Warner, Okanagan College