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dc.contributor.authorKysar, Douglas
dc.contributor.authorWeaver, R.
dc.date2021-11-25T13:34:50.000
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-26T11:47:50Z
dc.date.available2021-11-26T11:47:50Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
dc.identifierfss_papers/5260
dc.identifier.contextkey12531319
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/4809
dc.description.abstractDo we court disaster by stretching the bounds of judicial authority to address problems of massive scale and complexity? Or does disaster lie in refusing to engage the jurisgenerative potential of courts in a domain of such vast significance? This Article examines global climate change adjudication to shed light on these questions, focusing particularly on cases that seek to invoke the norm articulation and enforcement functions of courts. The attempt to configure climate-related harms within such substantive frameworks as tort and constitutional law is fraught with analytical and practical difficulties. Yet the exercise, we argue, is essential. Against the backdrop of a potentially existential threat, judges redeem the very possibility of law when they forthrightly confront the merits of climate lawsuits. Conversely, when they use weak preliminary and procedural maneuvers to avoid such confrontation, judges reinforce a sense of law's disappearance into the maw of normative rupture.
dc.titleCourting Disaster: Climate Change and the Adjudication of Catastrophe
dc.source.journaltitleFaculty Scholarship Series
refterms.dateFOA2021-11-26T11:47:50Z
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/5260
dc.identifier.legacyfulltexthttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6268&context=fss_papers&unstamped=1


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