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Climate Change Litigation's Regulatory Pathways: A Comparative Analysis of the U nited S tates and A ustralia
Author(s) -
Peel Jacqueline,
Osofsky Hari M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/lapo.12003
Subject(s) - climate change , regulatory reform , corporate governance , political science , scholarship , order (exchange) , law and economics , business , economics , law , biology , ecology , finance
This article provides a critical next step in scholarship on climate change litigation's regulatory role. It creates a model for understanding the direct and indirect regulatory roles of this litigation. It then applies this model to the U nited S tates and A ustralia, two key jurisdictions for climate change lawsuits, in order to explore the regulatory pathways that this litigation has taken, is taking, and likely will take. This analysis helps to illuminate the ways in which litigation influences regulation and forms part of climate change governance.