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6 - Human Rights and Socioecological Justice through a Vulnerability Lens

from Part I - Frameworks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2021

Sumudu A. Atapattu
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin School of Law
Carmen G. Gonzalez
Affiliation:
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Sara L. Seck
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia) Schulich School of Law
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I suggest here, as I have done elsewhere, that our legal institutions have been complicit in causing the Anthropocene, while they are unable to address the multiple inter and intraspecies injustices that arise as a result of the decay of earth system integrity.1 Human rights cannot convincingly stand insulated from the criticism leveled at law more generally.2 Indeed, uncritical reliance upon the human rights paradigm as a central strategy to achieve the objectives of the social pillar of sustainable development, or, in more contemporary terms, of socioecological justice,3 has failed to meaningfully address in any comprehensive way, the plights of billions of oppressed human and nonhuman beings, despite many human rights “victories.”4

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Print publication year: 2021

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