Transregional Just Transition Governance: Socio-legal and Politico-economic Perspectives
Our research explores how law and governance navigate transitions that seek to balance economic needs, climate goals, and social justice.
We examine legal, political and economic interdependencies shaping transregional governance in interconnected ecosocial transformations. Our research explores how law and governance navigate transitions that seek to balance economic needs, climate goals, and social justice. We analyse the potential and limits of law in fostering global cooperation and how transition regulations support equitable outcomes or risk deepening inequalities.
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A transregional view recognises multiple overlapping regulatory contexts focusing on relationality, complementarity and reciprocity. Through the lens of globalised legal pluralism, we analyse the interplay of legal principles, processes, practices, and conflict regulation, paying attention to normative tensions between economic needs and imperatives, climate goals, and social justice.
We interlink socio-legal with politico-economic perspectives by
(1) examining how law such as supply chain regulations, climate and migration policies, and investment facilitation agreements shape transitions and
(2) exploring governance and the politics of law, for example, the role of transnational actors, public-private partnerships in de-carbonisation/fossilisation, labour markets and trade and investment relations.
Key questions include: how do governance systems address or reinforce tensions between competing norms? To what extent do legal and economic structures enable or undermine equitable and sustainable transitions? How can inclusive and plural regulations be promoted?
Team
PD Dr. Katrin Seidel, Team Leader
Dr. Timm Sureau, Co-Team Leader
Chiara Gemoll
Shuai Amber Han
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On this page, you find all current and past events of our innovation team.
Just Transitions to a Net-Zero World
2nd Annual International Conference
Jointly convened by Durham University's Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy (CSDLP) and JTC.
