Rac Carmer’s Post

Curious about the role of international law in managing environmental impact? I am thrilled to participate in a panel discussion at International Law Weekend 2024 later this week. We will explore how international law regulates industrial activities affecting human rights and the environment.

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Register now for this interesting session on International Law and the Environment. International Law (War) International Law (Peace) International Law (Anthropocene?) A Session featuring Dr. Moises Covarrubias , Prof. Dr. Cathrin Zengerling , Dr. Chamu Kuppuswamy and James Bacchus 24 days 20 hours 19 mins 07 secs Broadcasts 18 October 2024, 7:30 AM BST About this Session Does shifting paradigms from human welfare to planetary welfare warrant the recognition of a distinct phase of International Law in the Anthropocene? Inspired by the recent developments in international environmental law (Global Pact on the environment), the evolving earth systems law (Lex Anthropocenae) and the urge to holistically address global sustainability challenges (Pact for the Future), this panel asks the question, how is international law being shaped by these developments? As background, five major ‘resets’ have held sway in international law. The Westphalian moment, which shaped international law as the law of war; the post WWI and post WWII which recognised the need for international of peace and cooperation, post-colonial UN decades which saw an expansion in subjects of international law, coinciding with international law’s commercial phase with trade, intellectual property, and investment rules and institution building and currently, the environmental phase. Is the Anthropocene at risk? A new natural resource boom is on the horizon. Terrestrial and seabed resources are now deemed ‘critical’ or ‘strategic’ for the energy and digital transitions. In the new geopolitics of the Anthropocene, there is a need to strengthen international rule of law to address this major threat to the environment and to peoples. The possibilities for this race for critical raw materials span from a neoliberal anthropocentric socio-economic enterprise to the other end of the spectrum, which is participatory, holistic, eco-centric and restrained use of resources within planetary boundaries. The panel will explore the normative environment and the evolving norms in the energy and digital transformations, the elasticity and ability of municipal laws to stretch across borders under the cover of international environmental laws, and the evolving uni and plurilateralism. The panel will discuss whether there would be a shift towards a more cooperative approach to acquiring raw materials in the Anthropocene. If that is so, would it emerge from this race for raw materials or would it emerge from new partnerships between mining companies and local peoples, between resource rich countries and resource hungry countries, and new norms for resource use? The panel aims at drawing conclusions around whether a paradigm shift from human welfare, a paramount consideration in international law of war and peace, to planetary welfare, an expanded idea of state security to planetary security, warrant the recognition of a distinct phase of International Law in the Anthropocene?

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I am delighted to see my review of Godwin Dzah's Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies is now available at https://lnkd.in/dN_CMvHb. Not only was this volume a pleasure to read over the summer, I found valuable insights on the potential of African cosmologies to steer the evolution of international environmental law in ways that address the demands of environmental justice as understood by those who experience or are at risk of harms caused in pursuit of a narrow notion of sustainable development. The book resonates with my own work and will undoubtedly be of interest to scholars working towards the decolonisation of international environmental law.

Dr. Rosemary Mwanza, Research Fellow at the Department of Law, Stockholm University provides the last book review of Godwin Dzah book, Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies available here https://lnkd.in/e-SeRkZk In her introduction, Dr. Mwanza notes that: Since its popularisation at the Stockholm Conference in 1972 and in the Brundtland Commission Report of 1987, as development that meets the needs of current generations without compromising future generations’ ability to meet theirs, sustainable development has become a cornerstone principle of international environmental law. Its popularity has grown in tandem with criticisms levelled against it. Scholars point out that the concept’s failure to commit to an overriding objective among the three competing pillars has made economic development its default core objective. Due to its open-textured nature, sustainable development has long been a popular surface discourse that lends linguistic cover for extractive neoliberal development, deceptively passing off as true sustainability. As a result, the concept has succeeded, not in seamlessly balancing its three constitutive pillars as initially conceived, but in providing cover for socially and ecologically unsustainable development demonstrated by the continued devastation of nature and negative social outcomes for peoples, especially those of the Global South. These critiques foreshadow the book under review. In Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies, Dzah’s objective is to deconstruct the history, politics and law of sustainable development under international law. Drawing on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), the author’s main argument is that sustainable development as currently conceptualised and implemented under international environmental law is defective and should be reconfigured to become a truly ecological law norm. The contemplated reconfiguration can be achieved by drawing on the legal value of African eco-cosmologies as a source of a countervailing logic and praxis to displace the Eurocentric and neoliberal logic that has curtailed its ability to advance human and ecological wellbeing. To read more, follow this link. https://lnkd.in/gFwye9se

Interested in environmental issues in international law + how posthuman theory can help think through them? The Planet Politcs blog is hosting a series of posts where authors from 'International Law and Posthuman Theory' delve into this topic: https://lnkd.in/dUVFcWj5

The call for submitting abstracts to the 2025 Degrowth Conference has been extended to 20th January 2025! (https://lnkd.in/e-pmi6ip) We encourage legal (and interdisciplinary) researchers to contribute to the session on 'Growth and Degrowth in EU law'. This session aims to contribute to the current broader reflection on the role of EU law in fostering economic growth and what could EU law do to address this issue. In particular: how EU law could be reshaped to address the challenges of our times (e.g. planetary boundaries, social needs, etc.). Examples of questions which could be addressed include: 👉 What are the potential legal obstacles and opportunities to integrate beyond-growth approaches (i.e. degrowth or post-growth approaches) in EU law? 👉 How to conceptualise beyond-growth in relation to EU law? 👉 What amendments to the treaties (i.e. TEU and TFEU) would be desirable and/or politically feasible? 👉 Does the current jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the EU include beyond growth-compatible elements or at least, elements that could provide the basis for future beyond-growth compatible case law? 👉 To what extent do recent policies such as the European Green Deal include beyond-growth compatible elements? The full description of the session is here: https://lnkd.in/e7uUcYEs We look forward to it!