Developments, Opportunities, and Complexities in Global South Scholarship on Climate Litigation: Literature review of scholarship by authors based in or identifying from the Global South
Jemima Roe
Abstract
Among the extensive academic and media coverage of the climate litigation landscape, there is a perception that there is a lack of legal scholarship on topics of climate litigation from authors from or based in the Global South. We sought to evaluate the veracity of this assumption by conducting a literature review of academic work written by individuals either hailing from or currently based in countries in the Global South. We found that there is a wide body of work by these authors available in the field of climate litigation, on a range of themes and across a wide breadth of geographies. This suggests that the work of these authors is not given sufficient prominence in discussions on climate litigation, which is presents a challenge to be addressed going forward.