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Shifting the frame from law in development to ending injustice / Sam Adelman and Abdul Paliwala -- The post-Hobbesian State, sovereignty and development / Raza Saeed -- Returning the anti-colonial to philosophy / Jayan Nayar -- The constitution of turbulence / Illan Rua Wall -- 'I built this house on my back' : an historical perspective on care and property in East Africa / Ambreena Manji, and Ann Stewart -- The role of community in human-rights and development discourse : resisting apathy and antipathy / Oche Onazi -- Transnational human rights obligations : beyond territory and state / Wouter Vandenhole / Beyond development : human rights, personal responsibility and the search for meaning / Andrew Williams -- The human right to water and beyond : some reflections on water justice and water reform in Zimbabwe / Bill Derman and Anne Hellum -- Access to justice for refugees / Dallal Stevens -- Islamic law, social justice and injustices : the case for Islamic welfare systems / Shaheen Sardar Ali and Faqir Asfundyar Yousaf -- Countering corruption to promote social justice in the global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis and malaria : the case of Uganda/ Monica Twesiime Kirya and Sharifah Sekalala -- 'In my own village' : chronotopes, governmentality and the changing regulation of traditional medicine in Kenya / John Harrington.

"The book examines the well-established field of 'law and development' and asks whether the concept of development and discourses on law and development have outlived their usefulness. The contributors ask whether instead of these amorphous and contested concepts we should focus upon social injustices such as patriarchy, impoverishment, human rights violations, the exploitation of indigenous peoples, and global heating? If we abandoned the idea of development, would we end up adopting another, equally problematic term to replace a concept which, for all its flaws, serves as a commonly understood shorthand? The contributors analyse the links between conventional academic approaches to law and development, neoliberal governance and activism through historical and contemporary case studies"--

AbstractNumerous scientific reports have evidenced the transformation of the earth system due to human activities. These changes – captured under the term 'Anthropocene' – require a new perspective on global law and policy. The concept of 'earth system law' situates law in an earth system context and offers a new perspective to interrogate the role of law in governing planetary challenges such as climate change. The discourse on earth system law has not yet fully recognised courts as actors that could shape climate governance, while climate litigation discourse has insufficiently considered aspects of earth system law. We posit that courts play an increasingly influential climate governance role and that they need to be recognised as Anthropocene institutions within the earth system law paradigm. Drawing on a set of prominent climate cases, we discuss five inter‐related domains that are relevant for earth system law and where the potential influence of courts can be discerned: establishing accountability, redefining power relations, remedying vulnerabilities and injustices, increasing the reach and impact of international climate law and applying climate science to adjudicate legal disputes. We suggest that their innovative work in these domains could provide a basis for positioning courts as planetary climate governance actors.

Written largely by Canadian scholars for Canadian readers, this overview of contemporary human rights concerns introduces the human rights instruments—provincial, national, and international—which protect Canadians. The volume begins with an outline of the history of human rights before moving on to discuss such important topics as the relationship between political institutions and rights protection, rights issues pertaining to specific communities, and cross-cutting rights issues that affect most or all citizens. Contemporary and comprehensive, Human Rights: Current Issues and Controversies is a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning more about human rights