Ecolawriors: Knights of the Green Law Consciousness

This article introduces the connected concepts of —legal challenges to violations and violators of environmental law—and , its practitioners. These concepts are extensions of lawfare and lawriors, terms that emerged in this century’s first decade in a military context. The article examines sociologi...

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Published inGlobal jurist Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 493 - 515
Main Author Fisher, Ryan J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin De Gruyter 01.10.2022
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Subjects
Attorneys
Capitalism
Climate change
climate crisis
commons
Consciousness
Dialectics
ecolawriors
Environmental law
Litigation
Marxian dialectics
Political activism
public trust doctrine
Social activism
Society
Sociology
Violations
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Summary:This article introduces the connected concepts of —legal challenges to violations and violators of environmental law—and , its practitioners. These concepts are extensions of lawfare and lawriors, terms that emerged in this century’s first decade in a military context. The article examines sociological, political economic, and legal literature, as well as black letter law, and argues that many non-US jurisdictions have been eco-friendly trendsetters in law. The article examines the relationships of ecolawfare and ecolawriors with Green social movements, presents a Marxian perspective on intergenerational equity, the public trust doctrine, and rights of nature against the backdrop of capitalist extraction, the climate crisis, and related litigation, and posits a legal parallel between protecting ecosystems and protecting civil rights. The article argues that the climate crisis demands radically new approaches to the law, including lawyers who do not think like traditional lawyers.
ISSN:1934-2640
2194-5675
1934-2640
DOI:10.1515/gj-2022-0016