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2.4.4. Critical legal theory

2.4.4. Critical legal theory

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Critical legal studies (abbr. CLS) critiques established legal forms, and therefore, as it highlights the ways that legal forms might sustain unsustainable practices and inequalities, it takes a critical approach to the study of laws and also encourages critical reflection on the exploration of legal alternatives for sustainability. In a narrow sense, it grew out of left-wing movements in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, such as the black civil rights movement and the Vietnam War protests, and challenged the dominant (legal) understanding of the time, liberal orthodoxy. In a broad sense,1 critical legal theories can actually be understood as the legal theoretical projections of critical social theories.2 Such a critique could be the critique of international, market-based environmental regulation, which argues that relying solely on market mechanisms, such as emissions trading systems, can disadvantage communities and fail to address the root causes of environmental degradation.3 Similar to this is the debate over corporate personality, where granting corporations the same legal rights that people enjoy could undermine environmental regulations and accountability.4

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Critical environmental law, within critical legal theory, argues that existing human-centric value-based approaches and market-based solutions, and existing environmental legal frameworks, are incapable of addressing environmental problems of the Anthropocene,5 because they are incapable of stopping environmental harm, and law needs fresh frameworks focused on protecting the environment for the sake of the environment.6 It focuses on the following themes: the value of nature per se (the environment should be protected not only for humans, but also for its own sake), the law of nature, justice and equity,7 and the precautionary principle, which establishes that where there is a threat of serious or irreversible environmental damage, scientific uncertainty is not an excuse for postponing measures to prevent environmental damage.8
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Stewart, J. G. (2020). Demystifying CLS: A Critical Legal Studies Family Tree. Adelaide Law Review, 41(1) 121–148. URL: https://law.adelaide.edu.au/ua/media/1506/Demystifying%20CLS_A%20Critical%20Legal%20Studies%20Family%20Tree.pdf (accessed: 28 October 2024);

Hunt, A. (1986). The Theory of Critical Legal Studies. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 6(1) 1-45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/6.1.1

2 Kiss, V. (2023). Kritikai jogelméletek, [Critical Legal Studies]. In: Jakab András et al. (eds.): Internetes Jogtudományi Enciklopédia. (Jogbölcselet rovat, rovatszerkesztő: Szabó, M.,Jakab, A. ) [Internet Encyclopaedia of Legal Science. (Legal Philosophy column. Column editors: Szabó, M., Jakab, A.]. URL: http://ijoten.hu/szocikk/kritikai-jogelmeletek. (accessed: 28 October 2024).
3 Sands, P. (2023). Environmental protection in the twenty-first century: sustainable development and international law, In: Vig, N. J., Axelrod, R. S. (eds.). The global environment. (London:Routledge). 116-137. eBook ISBN: 9781003421368 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003421368
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Winkler, A. (2018). We the corporations: How American businesses won their civil rights. Liveright Publishing. 496. URL: https://books.google.hu/books?id=IdpDDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=hu&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (accessed: 28 October 2024).;

Vincent, A. (2022). Can groups be persons? Group Rights. (London: Routledge). 215-243. URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315253770-16/groups-persons-andrew-vincent (accessed: 28 October 2024).

Ahamedi, H. S. A. (2021). Empowering Nature: Evaluating Corporate Personhood. Sustinere - The University of Toronto's Journal of Sustainable Development, 1(1)145-156.

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The Anthropocene is a geological epoch whose beginning is defined by the significant and global impact of human activity on the Earth's ecosystems. It is criticised for treating humanity as a monolithic entity and for not paying attention to the social strata and processes within it that shape the Earth's ecosystems.

De Lucia, V. (2017). Critical environmental law and the double register of the Anthropocene: A biopolitical reading, In: Kotzé, L. J. (ed.). Environmental law and governance for the Anthropocene. (Oxford:Hart Publishing). 97-116;

De Lucia, V. (2023). Anthropocentrism and International Environmental Law, In: Chapeaux, V. et al. (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of International Law and Anthropocentrism. (London:Routledge). 84-101.

6 Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. (2011). Towards a critical environmental law, In: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. (ed.). Law and Ecology. (London:Routledge). 18-38.
7 Pellow, D. N. (2017). What is critical environmental justice? (Hoboken (NJ):John Wiley & Sons). Print ISBN 9780745679389, 9780745679372 eBook ISBN 9781509525324 URL: https://www.perlego.com/book/1536460/what-is-critical-environmental-justice-pdf  (accessed: 28 October 2024).
8 Wiersema, A. (2022). The precautionary principle in environmental governance, In: Fisher, Douglas (ed.). Research Handbook on fundamental concepts of environmental law. (Cheltenham:Edward Elgar Publishing). 361-380. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108327.00024
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