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Hilson on Climate Change Litigation

By Lawrence Solum

Chris Hilson (University of Reading - School of Law) has posted Climate Change Litigation: A Social Movement Perspective on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Climate change litigation has been the subject of intense academic debate in recent years, but there has been little research carried out on it in the UK or from a social movement perspective. The aim of this article is to use developing UK litigation associated, in particular, with coal fired power stations and airport expansion as case studies for examining the way in which the climate change movement and the state authorities and media have engaged in a subtle ?framing? war. The article sets out the idea of soft versus hard frames and argues that the movement?s attempt to employ soft frames in relation to coal and airports has often faced hard counter-framing from its adversaries.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on October 06, 2010 (boomark / email).