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Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability

Marta Santos Silva Andrea Nicolussi Christiane Wendehorst Pablo Salvador Coderch

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Routledge
27 May 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability reflects on how the law can help tackle the current environmental challenges and make our societies more resilient to future crises.

Sustainability has been high on the political agenda since the approval of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 and the EU Green Deal in 2019. The Green Agenda aims at making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, but humanity persists in an ecological overshoot that puts at risk the survival of species, including that of our own. Drawing together a selection of leading thinkers in the field, this Handbook provides a curated overview of the most recent and relevant discussions for private lawyers related to environmental and sustainability concerns. The authors delve into case study examples from twenty countries in Europe and beyond and discuss a wide range of issues including new property law and consumer law paradigms, the use of legal tech for promoting sustainable property management, strategies for fighting planned obsolescence, eco-design, the servitisation economy, advances on corporate climate litigation and mandated green private sludges. Overall, the volume is designed to empower new generations of legal scholars to take an active role in the transition to a more sustainable future. It will also assist policymakers in producing better policy, through pinpointing the main legal issues that need to be addressed and offering a comparative overview of legal solutions and best practices.

Divided into six key parts and overseen by a team of internationally recognised expert Editors, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students, scholars, private lawyers and policymakers who wish to have a comprehensive, fundamental overview of how environmental sustainability concerns reflect on private law.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 246mm,  Width: 174mm, 
ISBN:   9781032662008
ISBN 10:   103266200X
Series:   Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
Pages:   690
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
PART 1 – Greening Private Law and in particular the Law of Obligations 1. Private Law and Environmental Sustainability Barbara Pozzo 2. Towards a Sustainable Interpretation of Standard Contract Terms? Dario Hug 3. Environmental Delicts and Post-Communist Private Law in Bulgaria: Time for Reforms in View of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal? Radosveta Vassileva 4. Private Law as a Tool to Overcome Split Incentives on Energy Efficiency in the Residential Rental Market Rosa M. Garcia-Teruel 5. Who's Afraid of Sustainability? A Primer for Mainstreaming Sustainability in Private Law Education Candida Leone PART 2 – Fostering environmental protection through consumer law 6. Various Approaches to ‘Greening’ Consumer Sales Law Fryderyk Zoll, Katarzyna Południak Gierz, Wojciech Bańczyk and Maciej Bujalski 7. The (Un)sustainability of the Sale of Goods in Directive (EU) 2019/771 Maria Miguel Oliveira da Silva and Jorge Morais Carvalho 8. The Blinding Effect of EU Consumer Policy Overshadows the Role of Consumer Law in Delivering the Green Transition Lucila de Almeida and Fabrizio Esposito 9. Revisiting European Consumer Protection Through the Lens of Sustainable Markets Mireia Artigot Golobardes 10. Sustainability Challenges in Slovenian Private Law: A Focus on the Nature of Goods Petra Weingerl PART 3 – Coordinating public and private sustainability law in Europe 11. Sustainability as a Regulatory Principle and the Rules of Economic Development. The Italian Legal System Guido Alpa 12. Sustainability and the Impact of the Court of Justice of the EU Verica Trstenjak 13. Private Law Responses to Imperfect Regulation in International Public Law - The Case of Vessel Recycling Kristina Siig 14. Amendments to Articles 9 and 41 of the Italian Constitution on the Protection of the Environment and Intergenerational Responsibility Roberta Calvano 15. The Case for a Stable Climate: The Urgent Need for a Subjective (Personality?) Right in the Portuguese Legal System Maria Regina Redinha and Maria Raquel Guimarães PART 4 – Conciliating property rights and environmental protection 16. Property Law and Sustainability: A New Field Björn Hoops 17. A New Paradigm of Ownership in Italian Private Law? Francesco Zecchin 18. Using Tokenisation in Support of ‘Superficies Sustainable’. A Dutch Case Study Jasper Verstappen and Tim van Zuijlen 19. The ecological function of property in the Constitution of Slovenia Miha Juhart 20. Electromobility Reconstruction of Buildings and Sustainable Property Management Tatjana Josipović 21. Distributional Effects of Disaster Management Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld and Marleen van Rijswick PART 5 - Green economy transition: sustainable consumption and production 22. The Interplay Between Ecodesign and Consumer Sales Law Victor Mehnert and Hans-W. Micklitz 23. Cooling-off Hot Deals. A Plea for Green Sludge in Electronic Consumer Contracts Marta Santos Silva and Tomàs Gabriel García-Micó 24. How Can We Persuade Consumers to Purchase More Sustainable Products? A Review of European Legal Developments Carl Dalhammar and Eléonore Maitre-Ekern 25. The Battle Against Planned Obsolescence - Legal Remedies Denis Philippe 26. Leveraging Regulatory Measures to Enhance the Sustainability Potential of Servitisation in the EU Janja Hojnik 27. Private standardization for sustainability Shen Yayun and Michael Faure PART 6 – Dealing with climate justice and corporate responsibility 28. Sustainability and Private International Law Ralf Michaels and Samuel Zeh 29. Individual Redress and Ecological Claims - New Wine into Old Wineskins? Sandra Passinhas 30. The EU Green Deal and the Sustainability of Corporate Activities Hugo-Maria Schally 31. Corporate Purpose as a Conduit for Sustainability in Corporate Governance Iain MacNeil and Irene-marié Esser 32. Online Platforms and Sustainability: How to Engage Digital Intermediaries in Sustainability Goals? Carlos Gómez Ligüerre & Lela Mélon 33. The Sustainability Obligation in Global Value Chain Contracts Jakub Błażej Zwierzchowski and Ewa-Rott Pietzryk 34. Contract Law and Sustainability of Global Value Chains: Assessing the Proposal for an EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive from a Contract Law Perspective Rebecca Ravalli 35. Environmental Litigation: Is it a Matter of Public or Private Law? An exploration of Cross-Fertilisation of Environmental Law Concepts in the Context of French Law Marc Clément Index Epilogue

Marta Santos Silva is postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center for Justice and Governance at the University of Minho, and an affiliated researcher at the Maastricht European Private Law Institute and the Centre for European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen. Prior to her current role, she worked at Maastricht University and an affiliated senior researcher at KU Leuven researching at the intersection between private law and sustainability studies. She gained experience working in Brussels for a consultancy working with the European institutions. She was appointed member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies (Product Liability Formation) and is an elected European Law Institute Council member. Andrea Nicolussi is Full Professor of Civil Law at the Law Faculty of the Catholic University of Milan, where he teaches comparative private law and family law. His published works focus on unjustified enrichment, contract law and tort law, as well as biolaw and family law. He has taken part in international collaborations such as the Study Group on a European Civil Code and the Eusoco project and was a member of the National Bioethics Committee. Christiane Wendehorst is Professor of Law at the University of Vienna. She is a member of the Academia Europaea, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the International Academy of Comparative Law, the American Law Institute, and numerous international research groups and advisory bodies. Before going to Vienna, she held full professorships in Germany and served as Managing Director of the Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies. Professor Wendehorst was President of the ELI, was one of its Founding Members and is today the ELI’s Scientific Director. Pablo Salvador Coderch studied law and economics at the University of Barcelona. He is a cofounder of and Emeritus Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Since 1995, he is of counsel at Cuatrecasas Abogados. He is a member of the ALI, the ELI, and the International Academy of Comparative Law and founder of InDret. He writes and teaches civil law, civil constitutional law, legislative drafting, and comparative law of torts and contracts. Marc Clément is, since September 2018, the presiding judge at the Administrative Tribunal of Lyon (France). In addition, he is since 2014 member of the French Environmental Authority. He has experience working as a lawyer at the DG Environment of the European Commission and as a legal adviser of the European Environment Agency. He published in 2010 the book “Environment European Law” and contributed extensively to books in the field of environmental law. Fryderyk Zoll is doctor honoris causa by the West-Ukrainian National University in Ternopil, Professor at the Chair of Civil Law at Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the European Legal Studies Institute, University of Osnabrück. He is the leading researcher of numerous Polish, German, and EU grants, a member of numerous academic associations and vice-chairperson of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy (KOD) regional board in Lesser Poland. He is a former member of the European Law Institute's Executive Committee, the Common Frame of Reference and the Committee of the Acquis Group drafting teams, as well as the Codification Commission at the Polish Ministry of Justice. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications in European private law, ecologisation of private law, consumer law, comparative law, legal education and judicial independence.

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