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Let’s Talk about the Lawyers: Climate Change Litigation, Professional Ethics, and ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Case Outcomes

Vaughan, Steven; (2024) Let’s Talk about the Lawyers: Climate Change Litigation, Professional Ethics, and ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Case Outcomes. In: Aristova, Ekaterina and Lim, Justin, (eds.) Climate Litigation in Europe Unleashed: Catalysing Action against States and Corporations. (pp. 54-57). The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights: Oxford, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

There is a wonderful book by Nathaniel Frank called Awakening. It is the story of the fight for equal marriage in the US. Partly, the book tells the tale of the various litigation attempts to have marriage made available for same-sex couples. But mainly, it’s a set of narratives focussing on the lawyers – about the lawyers who brought the cases, about the cases and tactics lawyers chose and why, about the claimants lawyers agreed on and those claimants they rejected, about politics between different lawyers, and about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ litigation outcomes. For the last couple of years, I have been thinking and working on lawyers and climate change: about the conditions under which we might, and sometimes should, hold lawyers responsible for the (perfectly legal) climate harms their clients bring about. In this contribution, I want to do something related but different, and possibly also provocative – to think, in the vein of Nathaniel Frank and Awakening, about the lawyers involved in climate change litigation.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Let’s Talk about the Lawyers: Climate Change Litigation, Professional Ethics, and ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Case Outcomes
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news/bonavero-ins...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189753
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