Climate change litigation is developing rapidly and pervasively, emerging as a space for legal innovation. Until now, this process has occurred mainly in national courts. The result is a decentralization of the interpretation of human rights relating to climate change. This article argues that such decentralization could, in principle, have a destabilizing impact on claims to the universality of human rights. However, close examination of this litigation shows that a prototype is emerging, certain features of which are becoming ‘hard wired’ through the process of judicial dialogue. By exploring the content of this prototype, its decentralized development, and its self-reinforcing nature, we see a legal space emerging in which environmental human rights sit between the universal and the contextual.

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气候变化诉讼中的模糊普遍性


气候变化诉讼正在迅速而普遍地发展，成为法律创新的一个空间。到目前为止，这一过程主要发生在国家法院。其结果是与气候变化相关的人权解释的权力下放。本文认为，这种权力下放原则上可能会对人权普遍性的主张产生不稳定的影响。然而，对这起诉讼的仔细研究表明，一个原型正在出现，其某些特征正在通过司法对话过程变得“硬连接”。通过探索这个原型的内容、其分散的发展及其自我强化的性质，我们看到了一个正在出现的法律空间，其中环境人权介于普遍性和背景之间。