There can be little doubt of the multiple complexities facing law in the twenty-first century. Climate change alone presents a challenge of unprecedented global complexity for legal systems – a complexity arising, moreover, directly from the ‘complexity of the climate...
Anna Grear
A Longer Road to Freedom: Addressing 21st Century Apartheids
The death of Nelson Mandela seems to unite minds and hearts the world over in a celebration of his life’s achievements and an apparently near-universal sadness at the passing of ‘a great light’ from the world. International leaders are lining up to give their deeply...
Human Bodies in Material Space: Editorial of the Journal for Human Rights and the Environment
This edition of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment is dedicated to the greatest struggle of our era – the ongoing – and increasingly urgent – struggle to confront the entrenched and growing violence (both epistemic and physical) of a global order that is...
From the nano to the macro-political: Reflections on Biodiversity & Food Supply
This is the latest editorial from the Journal of Human Rights & the Environment (Vol. 2, No. 2 (2010)). The full edition is available here. TW Lukes once observed that ‘[t]he discursive script of environmentality embedded in terms such as ecology or environment is...
Capitalism & Legal Subjectivity in the Age of Globalisation
A Prelude: Terra’s Predicament Once upon a time there was a planet – perfect green and egg-shell blue. It hung, fragile and ancient, in the yawning firmament of space-time. On the planet-surface – a thin crust riding a molten sea –one species outreached all others,...