Reading Materials (CLE Written Materials, Updated Mar 8, 2025)
Space Law and Earth Justice
March 20, 10:00 am – 11:30 am (Law &) E3 Exploration, Exploitation, & Escape
Surabhi Ranganathan, The Seabed and the South: From Stock Stories to New Histories of International Lawmaking, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No.4/2024 (2024)
National Research Council, Pathways to Exploration: Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration (National Academies Press 2014)
Mariel Borowitz et al, The Potential for Conflict in Cislunar Space: Findings from a Tabletop Exercise (2025 Pre-print)
Resource Radio Episode 138, Exploring the Future of Space Governance, with Timiebi Aganaba (July 20, 2021)
March 20, 1:30 pm -3:30 pm Waste and Space
Daniel Bodansky & Maria Ivanova, Breaking the Deadlock in the Plastics Negotiations, International Institute for Sustainable Development (Jan. 29, 2025)
Stephen Garber & Lisa Ruth Rand, A Montreal Protocol for Space Junk?, Issues in Science and Technology (Spring 2022)
Rachael Craufurd-Smith et al, Scotland’s Global Role in Outer Space Sustainability, The Scottish Council on Global Affairs (Dec. 2024)
Olivier Barsalou & Michael Hennessy Picard, International Environmental Law in an Era of Globalized Waste, 17(3) Chinese Journal of International Law (2018)
Katrina Wyman & Danielle Spiegel-Feld, The Urban Environmental Renaissance, 108 California Law Review 305 (2020)
Christine Billy, Congestion Pricing: A Case Study on Interstate Air Pollution Disputes, New York State Bar Association (Fall 2024)
March 20, 4:00 pm -5:30 pm Resilience & Adaptation: Critical Problems in Earth Justice
Dena Adler & Jennifer Danis, Reducing Pollution Without Sacrificing Reliability, Institute for Policy Integrity (Feb. 2024)
Elisa Morgera, Equity, sustainability and transformation under the BBNJ Agreement (pre-print, July 29, 2024)
Richard Stewart, Michael Oppenheimer & Bryce Rudyk, Building Blocks for Global Climate Protection, 31 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 341 (2013)
Jaye Ellis, Crisis, Resilience, and the Time of Law, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (2019)
March 21, 9:30 am-11:00 am Justice and Reparation/Injustice and Irreparability
Rising seas, growing harm: In arguments at the ICJ, Bryce Rudyk represents island nations at risk from climate change, NYU Law News (Dec. 13, 2024)
César Rodríguez-Garavito, Litigating the Climate Emergency: The Global Rise of Human Rights-Based Litigation for Climate Action (Dec. 5, 2021)
Marie Petersmann, Entangled Harms: A Reparative Approach to Climate Justice, LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 19/2024 (Dec. 14, 2024)
Tendayi Achiume, Racial Borders, 110 Georgetown Law Journal 445 (2022)
Ashley Otilia Nemeth & Jacob Metz-Lerman, Report: Loss and Damage Litigation Against Carbon Majors (Feb. 6, 2025)
March 21, 11:30 am -12:30 pm Planeteer-ing: the Oceanic and Atmospheric Commons
Surabhi Ranganathan, Global Commons, 27 European Journal of International Law 693 (2016)
Tyler Felgenhauer et al, Solar Radiation Modification: A Risk-Risk Analysis (Mar. 2022)
March 21, 1:30 pm -4:00 pm What does the term ‘Planetary’ do?
Jaye Ellis, ‘Social Nature:’ Political Economy, Science, and Law in the Anthropocene (2020)
Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury & Thomas Streinz, Sensoring the Oceans: The Argo Floats Array in the Governance of Science Data Infrastructures, IILJ Working Paper 2024/1 (2024)
Surabhi Ranganathan, Seasteads, Land-Grabs and International Law, 32(2) Leiden Journal of International Law 205 (2019)
More Than Human Rights: An Ecology of Law, Thought and Narrative for Earthly Flourishing (César Rodríguez-Garavito ed., NYU Law)
Daniel Bodansky & Harro van Asselt, What is International Environmental Law (Feb. 2024)
Guy Fiti Sinclair, A Better Way of World Making? International Law and Development at the United Nations (2024)
Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, The multiple materialisms of international law, 11 London Review of International Law (2023)
