Art, Law and Environmental Justice

Addressing contemporary issues in environmental justice, this collection of art-law collaborations introduces a new global view of the international commons.

Contemporary artists concerned with endangered ecosystems and the threat of climate catastrophe have become increasingly engaged in legal systems. Challenging established legal ideas, this book brings together authors and artists who offer new ideas and strategies to achieve greater environmental justice. Each essay invites policy considerations by detailing specific examples that challenge established judicial assumptions. Organized into three parts – The Limits of Law, Instruments of Law, and Interdisciplinarity and the Law – the book presents a brief for an international commons. Engaging a range of practical and theoretical issues in the area of ecology through the unique lens of art-law, this writing presents fresh thinking about the meaning of justice in the Anthropocene.

This book will be of interest to researchers and upper-level graduate students and scholars in law, art, cultural studies, political theory and environmental studies.