Adjudicating Climate Change

Melanie Murcott is Associate Professor of Public Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.Myriam Gicquello is Lecturer in Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Newcastle University, UK.

• 1. Introduction: Extra-Legal Factors in Climate Adjudication: Justifying a Multidisciplinary AnalysisMyriam Gicquello (Newcastle University), Melanie Murcott (University of Cape Town), and Emily Webster(University of Cambridge)2. Mind Over Reason: Pre-Existing Beliefs and Preferences Informing Judicial Outcomes in the USMyriam Gicquello (Newcastle University)3. A Slow Start of Climate Change Litigation in Sweden: What’s Education Got to Do with It?Sanja Bogojevic (University of Oxford)4. Climate Rights and the Judicial Appointment Process in South Africa and the USJames R. May (Widener University) and Chris Oxtoby (Independent Researcher)5. Contested Histories, Positionality and the Judiciary in the UK, USA and CanadaEmily Webster (University of Cambridge) and Jessica Crow (University of Cambridge)6. Trinity Forensics: Nuclear Colonialism and Mediated Litigation in Nuevo MéxicoStephen N. Borunda (UC Santa Bárbara) and Myrriah Gómez (The University of New Mexico)7. Budgets, Leakage and Reparations: How the Courts Confront Political Economy in TransnationalClimate LitigationPhillip Paiement (Tilburg University)8. Philosophy, Power, and Justice: Exploring Adjudicative Approaches in response to Climate Risk inAfricaAllan Basajjasubi (Natural Justice), Lindlyn Moma (University of Pretoria), and Melanie Murcott (Universityof Cape Town)9. Charting the Indigenous Experience of Climate Litigation in Settler-Colonial Legal RegimesHarj Narulla (Doughty Street Chambers, University of Oxford) and Ganur Maynard (Australian NationalUniversity, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency)10. Climate Science, (Un)Certainty and the Burden of Proof: Lessons for Climate Adjudication around theGlobeMark New (University of Cape Town)11. Climate Vulnerability and Scientific Evidence in European Climate Adjudication: Unpacking VariancesEmily Barritt (King’s College London), Matteo Fermeglia (Hasselt University), and Birgit Peters (TrierUniversity)12. Climate Change Adaptation and Litigation: Understanding the political ecology of transformationBirsha Ohdedar (SOAS University of London)