Upper Level Reading Groups

It is impossible to deny that the climate catastrophe is entering? the legal field. From international discussions about the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions; through the definition of the loss and damages institutional agenda; including national rulings condemning states for the lack of action towards implementing their obligations, and the creation of a global movement that claims for urgent solutions. In all those scenarios, different actors are using the law as a tool to respond to the biggest human threat. What is the role of lawyers in the climate catastrophe? Which are the responses of states and civil society to this crisis? What does the law have to say in the face of the current extinction? In this reading group, we will explore some of the environmental challenges we are facing and the legal and political developments that different actors have created to respond to them. In this way, using an interdisciplinary collection of sources, we will ask ourselves about the ecological, economic, and political situation of the climate catastrophe and see how different actors translated into international and national regimes.