The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law

Douglas Kysar is Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law at Yale University and faculty director of the Law, Environment and Animals Program. His teaching and research areas include torts, environmental law, climate change, animal law, products liability, and risk regulation. Kysar was previously on the faculty at Cornell Law School. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1995 and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.Ernest Lim is the Chan Sek Keong Professor of Private Law and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. An internationally recognised scholar, his research expertise in comparative corporate governance and private law addresses critical global challenges: sustainability and artificial intelligence. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University and a master's from Harvard Law School. He previously practised law at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York and Hong Kong.

At a time when climate conditions are worsening but the U.S. government is moving backwards on climate action and the energy transition, the tools of private law take on increasing importance. This pathbreaking book explores both the theory and the practice of how familiar areas of law — contracts, torts, property, trusts, intellectual property —can be applied in innovative ways. It also delves into the climate relevance of essential aspects of corporate and commercial law such as finance, insurance, competition, securities, bankruptcy, labor, and arbitration. Anyone looking for new legal tools to fight climate change will greatly benefit from this volume.