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An 'Act of God'? Rethinking Contractual Impracticability in an Era of Anthropogenic Climate Change

Dellinger, Myanna F. - 2016

. By modernizing these doctrines to reflect current on-the-ground reality, the judiciary may further help instigate a … to reach a sufficiently detailed antecedent agreement on the issue.The law is never static. It must reflect real world … problems including contractual performance liability. The general public is often said to have lost faith in the judiciary …

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Constitutional Climate Change in the Courts

May, James R. - 2014

We have entered an interesting constitutional era, one in which a rising sea level will help to buoy a rising tide of climate litigation, the leading edge of which lies constitutional jurisprudence as applied to the political question doctrine, preemption, dormant commerce and compact clauses...

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The CAFO Hothouse : Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture and the Law

Cassuto, David N. - 2014

The issue of climate change has at long last made its way into mainstream policy discussions in the United States. However, the focus both in the United States and internationally has been on reducing energy production and transportation emissions. This has led the media, policy makers and the...

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Trade Measures to Address Climate Change : Territory and Extraterritoriality

Young, Margaret A. - 2016

States can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions through trade measures such as energy subsidies, labelling or certification requirements or tax adjustments. These measures modify production or consumption behaviour without regard to territorial borders. Yet territory is a significant concept...

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Climate Change Law in an Era of Multi-Level Governance

Peel, Jacqueline; Godden, Lee C.; Keenan, Rodney - 2012

As international negotiations struggle to deliver timely, binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to safe levels, the environmental legal community has begun to contemplate the scope for climate governance ‘beyond’ the international climate change regime. Many see merit in a...

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'Introduction' to Climate Change Ethics for an Endangered World

Brooks, Thom - 2020

face and overcome. Climate Change Ethics for an Endangered World is a critical guide on how we can better understand the … fragile world around us before it is too late …

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The effect of outside temperature on criminal court sentencing decisions

Evans, Sally; Siminski, Peter - 2020

Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated by Heyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics),...

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