A legal paradigm shift towards climate justice in the Anthropocene

Business as usual is widely acknowledged as the main driver of ecological collapse and climate breakdown, but less attention is paid to the role of law as usual as an impediment to climate justice. This article analyses how domestic and international environmental law facilitate injustices against living entities and nature. It calls for a paradigm shift in legal theory, practice and teaching to reflect the scale and urgency of the unfolding ecological catastrophe. Section 2 outlines the links between climatic harms and climate injustices. This is followed by discussions of unsustainable law and economic development in sections 3 and 4. Section 5 examines the potential contribution of new materialist legal theory in bringing about a legal paradigm shift that reflects the jurisgenerative role of nature in promoting climate justice.<br /><br /> El statu quo empresarial est&aacute; ampliamente considerado como el actor principal del colapso ecol&oacute;gico y el desastre clim&aacute;tico, pero se presta menos atenci&oacute;n al papel del statu quo jur&iacute;dico como obst&aacute;culo a la justicia clim&aacute;tica. Este art&iacute;culo analiza c&oacute;mo el derecho ambiental nacional e internacional facilita que se produzcan injusticias contra los seres vivos y la naturaleza. Pide un cambio de paradigma en la teor&iacute;a, la pr&aacute;ctica y la ense&ntilde;anza del derecho, para reflejar la escala y la urgencia de la cat&aacute;strofe ecol&oacute;gica que se est&aacute; desarrollando. La secci&oacute;n 2 dibuja las relaciones entre el da&ntilde;o clim&aacute;tico y la injusticia clim&aacute;tica. A esto le sigue una argumentaci&oacute;n sobre el desarrollo jur&iacute;dico y econ&oacute;mico insostenible, en las secciones 3 y 4. La secci&oacute;n 5 examina la contribuci&oacute;n potencial de la nueva teor&iacute;a jur&iacute;dica materialista en el sentido de provocar un cambio de paradigma jur&iacute;dico que refleje el rol jurisgenerativo de la naturaleza para promover la justicia clim&aacute;tica.<br /><br /> <strong>Available from:</strong> <a href="https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1177" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1177</a>