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CLIMATE LITIGATION: AN INSTRUMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

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Image by Vincent M.A Jansen Introduction Climate litigation has emerged as a significant aspect of environmental law, allowing communities to seek legal redress against governments and big corporations for their role in climate change reduction. This approach involves the use of law to frame the climate crisis and the ensuing problems to proactively determine and operationalise legal response action, squarely situating climate change cases in human rights and constitutional law. Certain arguments are increasingly being accepted by courts as valid, thereby setting precedents for future cases involving climate change in addition to providing legal grounds for the formulation of future environmental policies as well as calling corporations to account. Among these are the issues of human rights, judicial activism, and the development of legal precedent and jurisprudence, all of which attest to the rise in the application of climate litigation as a means of seeking climate justice. i. ...
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COGNITIVE SUBJECTS OR OBJECTS OF MILITARY STRATEGY? THE COMPATIBILITY OF AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS WITH HUMANITARIAN LAW PRINCIPLES

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 Image from Pexels The law of war does not require weapons to make legal determinations… rather, it is persons who must comply with the law… [1]     Introduction . French scholar Jean-Jacques Rousseau is often quoted for asserting that “war is not a personal conflict between individuals, but rather a relationship between States, where individuals become enemies only incidentally; not as human beings or even as citizens, but solely as soldiers.” [2] This statement, which virtually abstracts man from the conflict, is especially relevant in today's context. We are particularly focused on the rise of Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS) as a significant aspect of modern warfare. To do other war novelties justice, [3] AWS are not the only novelty, be it as it may, they stand quite distinctive especially due to their complexities. [4] Without prejudice to any other understanding, we can define autonomous weapon systems as weapon systems that, once activated, can identify,...
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