Comparing Legal Disciplines as an Approach to Understanding the Role of Law in Decarbonizing Societies

IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Transnational Environmental Law Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI:10.1017/s204710252300016x
Kaisa Huhta, Seita Romppanen
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Law plays an important role in reshaping and enforcing governance efforts in radical shifts and can function as a catalyst for transitioning governance towards sustainability. This article assesses the capacity of law to facilitate decarbonization as a radical societal shift. It argues that decarbonization demands fundamental and systemic restructuring in law and legal thinking. This should also be reflected in legal scholarship and, most importantly from the point of view of this article, in the methodological choices and approaches that legal scholarship relies on to study societal challenges. To that end, the article develops a new methodological approach (disciplinary comparison) through which to study law's capacities in respect of decarbonization as a radical societal shift. Disciplinary comparison can be used to gain information on both the friction and the synergies between legal disciplines. This new methodological approach will contribute to increasing insight into law's capacities for the radical, cross-sectoral change necessitated by the need to decarbonize societies.
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比较法律学科作为理解法律在脱碳社会中作用的途径
法律在彻底转变中重塑和加强治理工作方面发挥着重要作用,可以成为将治理向可持续性过渡的催化剂。本文评估了法律促进脱碳的能力,将其视为一种根本的社会转变。它认为,脱碳需要在法律和法律思维方面进行根本性和系统性的重组。这也应该反映在法律学术中,从本文的角度来看,最重要的是,反映在法律学者研究社会挑战所依赖的方法选择和方法中。为此,本文开发了一种新的方法论方法(学科比较),通过这种方法来研究法律在脱碳方面的能力,这是一种激进的社会转变。学科比较可以用来获得关于法律学科之间的摩擦和协同作用的信息。这一新的方法论方法将有助于进一步深入了解法律的能力,以应对社会脱碳所需的根本性跨部门变革。
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