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Earth System Law: Governing Planetary Transformations in the Anthropocene

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Earth System Law: Governing Planetary Transformations in the Anthropocene

Author: Louis J. Kotze
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509994663
Published In: August 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Written by leading experts, this book provides the first comprehensive and critical exploration of Earth system law.

Environmental law, as it stands, does not meet the challenge of governing the many complex planetary transformations of the Anthropocene. Earth system law marks a new legal paradigm-replacing the fragmented, human-centred, state-based approach with an integrated, Earth-centred approach to planetary governance, purpose-built for our turbulent epoch.

The book offers innovative proposals for legal principles, actors, institutions, and ethics designed to safeguard the stability and integrity of Earth's life-support systems. It also delivers the first full stocktake of the Earth system law framework and its scholarship, coupled with a forward-looking research and implementation agenda.

Earth System Law is for all those who are frustrated by the persistent inability of environmental law to address the interconnected governance challenges of the Anthropocene-and for those ready to help shape the next legal frontier. Researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers alike will find here both the vision and the tools to rethink law for a human-dominated planet.

Part 1: Introduction

1. Introduction

Louis J. Kotze (Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands)

2. The Evolution of Earth System Law: Opening Up New Pathways for Legal Innovation

Louis J. Kotze (Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands), Mike Angstadt (Colorado College, USA) and Rakhyun E. Kim (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

Part 2: Resituating the Debate on Law, Legal Principles, and Planet Earth

3. Law, Legal Principles, and Planet Earth

Louis J. Kotze (Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands) and Louise du Toit (University of Southampton, UK)

4. (Past) Reflections on the (Future) Origins of Earth System Law Principles

Michael Leach (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)

5. Earth System Law and The Praxis of Being De-Principled

Emille Boulot (University of Tasmania, Australia), Laura Mai (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ) and Shaun Sellers (McGill University, Canada)

Part 3. Alternative Worldviews and New Ethics Shaping the Evolution of Earth System Law

6. The Imperative Need for a New Relational Ethic to Underpin Earth System Law for the Anthropocene

Karen Morrow (Swansea University, UK)

7. Earth Made up of Territories of Life: A Vision for Earth System Law

Geoffrey Garver (McGill University, Canada) and Ivan Dario Vargas Roncancio (York University, Canada)

8. Stain-guarding Earth System Law in the Enshittocene: Back to the Future for Sustainable Development

Michelle Lim (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

9. Kinship as a Metaphor in Earth System Law and Governance

Rosalind Warner (York University, Canada)

Part 4: Innovative Earth System Lawyering and Governance

10. Architectural Principles for Earth System Law: Constitutive Regulation

Cameron Holley (University of New South Wales, Australia), Clifford Shearing (University of Cape Town, South Africa ) and Samantha Moyo (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

11. The "Near Frontier": Seeking Institutional Pathways to Earth System Law

Mike Angstadt (Colorado College, USA)

12. The Earth System Law-Makers

Benoit Mayer (University of Reading, UK)

13. Moving Images, Moving Society: Environmental Cinema and Earth System Law

Benjamin Richardson (University of Tasmania, Australia)

14. The United Times: A Chronopolitan Thought Experiment in Planetary Earth Law

Frederic Hanusch (Justus-Liebig-University, Germany)

Part 5. Conclusion

15. Exploring Future Frontiers

Louis J. Kotze (Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands), Rakhyun Kim (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and Frank Biermann (Utrecht Universuty, the Netherlands)