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Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism

Autor Melanie Murcott
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 oct 2022
Given the Anthropocene's converging socio-ecological crises, particularly the dire issue of climate change, social movements are increasingly approaching the courts to advance intersecting struggles for social, environmental, and climate justice. Transformative constitutional regimes in South Africa and elsewhere that incorporate environmental and human rights protections offer potentially powerful legal norms to advance the struggles of these movements. Grappling with such norms and with problematic trends in adjudication, Prof. Melanie Jean Murcott develops a legal theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism as a novel framework within which courts could adjudicate environmental law disputes, developing law for the Anthropocene’s global struggles.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004509399
ISBN-10: 9004509399
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill | Nijhoff

Notă biografică

Melanie Jean Murcott, LLD (2020), North-West University, is an Associate Professor of Environmental Law and Administrative Law at the University of Pretoria. She publishes extensively in these fields, including on "Emerging climate law and governance measures in South Africa".

Recenzii

"It is no secret that the Earth is under siege. Prof. Melanie Jean Murcott’s 'Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism' illuminates a path forward. It deciphers and distills in theory, practice, words, lyrics, and music how adjudication can transform and improve social justice and environmental outcomes. It concurrently highlights hope while sounding a clear-eyed call for action.” -James R. May, Esq.
Haub Scholar, Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

Cuprins

Preface Developing Law for the Anthropcene in the Global South

Abbreviations

1It’s Time to Get Crazy Justifying Radical Judicial Responses to Intersecting Social, Environmental and Climate Injustices
1.1 Introduction

1.2 An Environmental Law Dispute

1.3 A Socio-ecological Systems Perspective for the Anthropocene

1.4 A Global South Context and Justification for Radical Judicial Responses for the Anthropocene: Patterns of Marginalisation, Disadvantage, and Vulnerability in South Africa and Conceptualising (In)Justice
1.4.1Poverty and Inequality in South Africa

1.4.2Social, Environmental, and Climate (In)Justice


1.5 Methodology and Structure of the Book
1.5.1Progressive and Reformist Legal Scholarship

1.5.2A Legal Theory Emerging from a Tapestry of Norms, Woven Together

1.5.3Justifying a Legal Theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism by Grappling with Problematic Trends in the Adjudication of Environmental Law Disputes

1.5.4Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism in Theory and Practice

1.5.5Conclusion: The Importance of a Legal Theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism


2Weaving Together a Tapestry of Norms Transformative Constitutionalism, Transformative Adjudication, and Environmental Constitutionalism
2.1 Introduction

2.2 Transformative Constitutionalism
2.2.1Support for Transformative Constitutionalism Elsewhere in the World

2.2.2Criticisms of Transformative Constitutionalism

2.2.3Transformative Constitutionalism’s Goals: A Critical Perspective


2.3 Transformative Adjudication
2.3.1The Political Nature of Transformative Adjudication through Substantive Reasoning

2.3.2The Need to Overcome Formalism

2.3.3Transformative Adjudication and the Separation of Powers Doctrine


2.4 Environmental Constitutionalism in South Africa
2.4.1Category 1: Laws Explicitly Aimed at the Protection of the Environment and/or Components

2.4.2Category 2: Laws Requiring Transparent, Lawful, Participatory, Fair, and Reasonable Decision Making

2.4.3Category 3: Substantive Rights Interrelated with and Mutually Reinforcing of Environmental Protection


2.5 Conclusion


3Problematic Trends in the Adjudication of Environmental Law Disputes in South Africa
3.1 Introduction

3.2 Overlooking Social, Environmental, and Climate Injustices in Environmental Law Disputes (the “Overlooking Trend”)
3.2.1Adendorffs Boerderye

3.2.2Kenton on Sea


3.3 Over-Proceduralising Environmental Law Disputes (the “Over-Proceduralisation Trend”)
3.3.1Normandien Farms

3.3.2The Barberton Mines Judgments


3.4 Under-Development of the Environmental Right (the “Under-Utilisation Trend”)
3.4.1Under-Development by Virtue of Courts Paying Lip Service to the Environmental Right
3.4.1.1 Propshaft

3.4.1.2 iSimangaliso


3.4.2Under-Development by Virtue of Courts Presuming that Substantive Provisions in Environmental Legislation Give Effect to the Environmental Right


3.5 Overlooking the Relationships among Environmental Rights and other Interrelated and Mutually Reinforcing Rights (the “Compartmentalisation Trend”)

3.6 Conclusion


4Developing Law for the Anthropocene Exploring the Content of a Legal Theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism
4.1 Introduction

4.2 Justice-Oriented Framing of Disputes

4.3 Substantive, Rights-Based Adjudication
4.3.1Substantive Engagement with Justice-Oriented Provisions in Environmental Legislation

4.3.2Environmental Justice

4.3.3Public Trusteeship

4.3.4Developing the Normative Content of the Environmental Right

4.3.5Ecological Sustainability

4.3.6Inter- and Intra-generational Equity

4.3.7Recognising the Mutually Reinforcing and Interrelated Nature of the Environmental Right and Other Substantive Rights

4.3.8The rights to Life and Dignity

4.3.9Socio-economic Rights

4.3.10Cultural Rights


4.4 Conclusion


5The Practical Significance of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism Offering Hope for the Adjudication of Future Environmental Law Disputes
5.1 Introduction

5.2 Earthlife
5.2.1The Framing of the Dispute in Earthlife

5.2.2Purposive and Substantive Rights-Based Adjudication in Earthlife


5.3 veja
5.3.1The Framing of the Dispute in veja

5.3.2Purposive and Substantive Rights-Based Adjudication in veja


5.4 The Gongqose Judgments
5.4.1Framing of the Dispute in the Gongqose Judgments

5.4.2Purposive and Substantive Rights-Based Adjudication in the Gongqose Judgments


5.5 Conclusion


6Conclusion
6.1 Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism as Work-in-Progress

6.2 Law for the Anthropocene: A Moving Target


Bibliography

Index