Date: 2022
Type: Article
Extratemporal jurisdiction
Verfassungsdebate, 2022, Longtermism and the law, OnlineOnly
BERTRAM, Daniel Alexander, Extratemporal jurisdiction, Verfassungsdebate, 2022, Longtermism and the law, OnlineOnly
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The future is omnipresent in today’s political discourse. Science has furnished us the tools to foretell with rapidly growing precision what the next decades and centuries will hold. Moral concern for future beings has developed in a similar direction, with ‘future generations’ now frequently being invoked to support or oppose policy proposals of all sorts. The widening of scientific and moral future horizons has also seeped into legal spheres, where courts increasingly find themselves confronted with intergenerational disputes that centre on the future ramifications of current state activities – climatic disruption, ecosystem failures, or economic meltdowns.
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Published online: 15 August 2022; This article belongs to the debate 'Longtermism and the law'. Our actions (and inactions) may have historically unique consequences for humans living hundreds or even thousands of years into the future, but their rights and interests are rarely represented in current political and economic systems. Contributors to this symposium discuss the role of law in sustaining and improving life hundreds or even thousands of years into the future. This symposium is an outcome of the presentations at the 2022 Multidisciplinary Forum on Longtermism and the Law, co-organized by the University of Hamburg and the Legal Priorities Project.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77239
Full-text via DOI: 10.17176/20220815-181828-0
ISSN: 2366-7044
External link: https://verfassungsblog.de/extratemporal-jurisdiction/
Publisher: Verfassungsblog
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