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Symposium: Global Law: Sustaining accumulation, constraining ecological protection?
The concept of sustainability, or sustainable development, articulated in the 1987 Brundtland Report has, since the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development, legitimated what Steven Bernside calls the ‘compromise of liberal environmentalism’.[1] This [...]
Symposium: Introduction – The Politics of Sustainability
In these two blogs, Julia Dehm and Joyeeta Gupta engage the questions of sustainability and environmental justice in contemporary global legal governance. In their blogs we see a common concern with the dominant position [...]
Symposium: Towards a Sustainable Global Economic Law: Shifts, Ruptures and Social Justice
What might a ‘Sustainable Global Economic Law’ (SGEL) look like, in a context of accelerating ecological degradation, wild levels of inequality and wealth concentration, continuous technological disruption and strong demands for environmental and social [...]
The Nature of Comparing
What do you think about when someone mentions the US State of Louisiana? Mardi gras, hurricanes, jazz and a Sazerac cocktail? Ask a comparative lawyer and they may respond that Louisiana is a Mixed Legal [...]
Frenzy of the Streets: The Radical Aspirations of Justifying Contract in Europe
A comment on the ACT Book Symposium of 30 September 2021 On 30 September 2021, the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law hosted and organised a book symposium around Martijn Hesselink’s recent book Justifying [...]
Raworth’s Doughnut as a Compass for a Sustainable City? Lessons from the SUSA Initiative
In its Circular Strategy 2020-2025, Amsterdam relies on the Amsterdam City Doughnut developed by the British economist Kate Raworth. The model depicts an economy where societies and businesses contribute to economic development while respecting [...]
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