“Six honest serving-men”: Climate change litigation as legal mobilization and the utility of typologies

• DOI: 10.1163/cl-2010-003
• Publication Date: 2018-11-08T09:52:03Z
• Authors: Navraj Singh Ghal...
• Keywords: Lawmaking; Legislator

As the legal character of approaches to climate change has increased in complexity, so volume litigation burgeoned, at various levels and across a range jurisdictions.The growth complexity is witnessed forms, including shift from treaty lawmaking diplomats negotiators that ordinary national (and sub-national) legislator by development mitigation financing networks private public entities.Similarly, causes action are various, as pertinent regulatory regimes motivations those bringing claims.Scholarly explorations this phenomenon have followed, focusing variously on single courts, implications particular levels, considerations for bodies extant law, merits such actions, well theoretical engagements with case law within context law.The approach article more ecumenical.Its potential 'dataset' entirety caselaw rather than discrete themes it attempts discern patterns piece, systematize claims, thereby create typology be deployed developed future analyses.