Sociology of Law in the Context of the Anthropocene Debate

Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 09:00-10:45
Location: Poster Area (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC12 Sociology of Law (host committee)

Language: English, French and Spanish

The debate about the Anthropocene raises several questions which challenge sociology of law. For example:

  • Environmental changes force new individual and collective practices, ie new social norms. What is the role of law in the design and implementation of such laws?
  • These changes affect different populations in different ways, raising feelings of injustice. To what extent can legal measures be an answer to such feelings?
  • Measures likely to reduce or undo these changes might be founded on new ways of recognizing the non human reality. How could the law contribute to change the relationship between mankind and its non human environment?
  • The concept of Anthropocene recognizes human activity as being the cause of planetary changes. Can such changes be approached in terms of liability? Could jurisprudence and legal theory contribute the debates required to determine such liability and its consequences?

This poster session was set up to offer a space for the presentation of researches tackling these and other questions linking law to environmental issues, and which would not fit in the specific thematic areas addressed by the paper sessions organized by RCSL.

Session Organizer:
Pierre GUIBENTIF, Portugal
Posters
Layers of Emotion and Judicial Identities: Preliminary Findings from a National Survey
Sharyn ROACH ANLEU, Australia; Kylie BURNS, Griffith University, Australia; Terese HENNING, University of Tasmania, Australia; Richard KEMP, UNSW, Australia; Kevin Carly O'SULLIVAN SCHREVER, University of Western Australia, Australia; Natalie SKEAD, University of Western Australia, Australia; Kate WARNER, University of Tasmania, Australia
The Role of Law in the Development of Working Poverty: A Comparison between Chile and Spain
Jose ZAWADSKY, Spain
Corporate Lobbying after Government - Mapping Former Swedish Ministers and State Secretaries’ Careers in the Private Sector
Heraclitos MUHIRE, Sweden
The Rule of the (Cistercian) Rule. from the Rule By (a religious) Law to the Rule of Law in Line with Sustainability Requirements
Hugues BOUTHINON-DUMAS, ESSEC Business School, France
"Rethinking Justice in the Anthropocene: A Feminist Perspective"
Vishakha KAMAL, India
An Exploration of the Mechanisms of Legal Cultural Formation for Artists through the Lens of the Neganthropocene.
Yayoi KITAMURA, Kyoritsu Womens' University, Japan
The Coloniality of LAW: Constitutionalism and Human Rights
Amélia SAMPAIO ROSSI, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil
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