Climate Justice: A Legal and Political Revolution

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This climate justice course aims to make students aware of the importance of climate litigation, and the legal revolution that it constitutes: more than 2,500 trials around the world. But also its capacity to infuse other disputes, that of environmental health and that of nature. Through a completely innovative alliance between civil society (non-governmental organizations but also local authorities) and the supreme courts of many countries (and all continents), national climate litigation with an international vocation is being developed. It is based both on international conventions and on major human rights texts, and is the creator of completely new concepts such as that of the rights of future generations.