Representing Future Generations

"This book presents the first theory of proxy representation in the international legal order in the context of climate change. Written in accessible language, it will make a useful reference for researchers, graduate students and policymakers in international environmental law, global environmental governance and environmental philosophy"--

Peter Lawrence is an Adjunct Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Peter holds a Ph.D. in international law from Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He works closely with philosophers and has been a visiting scholar at the Munich School of Philosophy, Germany, the Ethics Institute, Utecht University, The Netherlands, and the Australian National University (ANU) College of Law, Canberra, Australia. He is the author of Justice for Future Generations: Climate Change and International Law (2014) and co-editor of Giving Future Generations a Voice: Normative Frameworks, Institutions and Practice (2021) and a contributor to the Oxford Handbook on International Environmental Law (2021).