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  1. Human Rights Law and the Obligation to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions.Alexander Zahar - 2022 - Human Rights Review 23 (3):385-411.
    Human rights law has been called upon to help with the problem of persistently high greenhouse gas emissions. An obligation on states and other legal entities to lower their emissions (mitigation) is said to be deducible from that body of law. I refute this thesis. First, I consider two practical difficulties—causality and non-triviality—that face a plaintiff who, with emission mitigation as the objective, attempts to prove a human rights violation using the regular pattern of proof for a violation. Proponents of (...)
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  • On Normative Redundancies and Conflicts: A Material Approach.Federico Szczaranski - 2022 - Law and Philosophy 41 (4):491-516.
    The challenges that normative redundancies and normative conflicts pose to legal theory have been traditionally addressed by either altering the rules that trigger them, or by including preference rules that deactivate them. As an alternative to these routes, this paper argues that the problems with both redundancies and conflicts only arise as a consequence of a mistaken understanding of legal reasoning that ignores the material relations between the rules at issue. By resorting to inferential semantics, this material dimension is taken (...)
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