Representing Future Generations

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). Michael Reder is a Professor of Practical Philosophy with a focus on social and political philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy. He earned his doctorate in 2006 with a dissertation on the Global Governance paradigm and completed his habilitation in 2011 at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. He has conceived and led numerous research collaborations on topics such as representation & democracy, climate change & justice, and politics & transnational solidarity. He has been a visiting scholar at Ateneo de Manila University, the University of Cambridge, Fordham University/New York, and Georgetown University/Washington, DC. He is also the author of numerous books, including Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability (2012) together with Edenhofer et al., Philosophie pluraler Gesellschaften (2018) and Tamoudi & Faets, Politik der Zukunft and Zukünftig Generationen als Leerstelle der Demokratie (2020).

• Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Normative Framework: Justifying Representation of Future Generations: 2. Proxy representation and the global legal order: integrating philosophical and legal perspectives; 3. The democratic ideal and its normative value for future generations; Part II. International Law and Institutions: 4. Criteria for evaluating mechanisms for representation of future generations; 5. Lessons from existing international institutions to represent vulnerable groups; Part III. Case Studies: 6. The ICJ advisory opinion on climate change and proxy representation of future generations; 7. A UN committee on the rights of the child case study: the Sacchi et al case Nicky van Dijk; 8. A UN special envoy for future generations; 9. Conclusion; Index.