My invited refereed article published in the European Business Law Review is based on the keynote lecture I delivered at the University College London (UCL)—European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Biennial Law and Ethics Symposium.
While climate change litigation in developed countries of the ‘Global North’ is a well-studied phenomenon, relatively few studies focus on climate case law emerging in the Global South, its distinctive characteristics and the contribution it is making, and may make, to implementation of international climate laws like the Paris Agreement.
Maps are all around us. Maps not only inundate our reality, impel our direction, depict weather forecasts, provide demographic data, and distinguish electoral districts, but they also mark property boundaries, affirm state lines, represent territorial limits, provoke geopolitical crises, and sustain sovereign claims. These are all more or less well-known cartographic functions and have merited scrutiny, in varying degrees, from various disciplines. But the historically constituted intrinsic ties that bind maps and law, cartography and jurisdiction, the visual and the legal, are yet to receive sustained attention in legal scholarship.
My recent book, Carbon-Free Shipping and Shipping Carbon (Hart Publishing, 2024) co-edited with Professor Vibe Ulfbeck contains 15 chapters. It explores the private law implementation of the new international and EU regulatory framework targeting decarbonisation in the shipping industry. It is the follow-on to a Conference organised by Vibe Ulfbeck and hosted by the Shipping and Ocean Law Group (SHOC) at the University of Copenhagen in November 2022, where I also spoke.