@article{2023:gradoni:youthled_,
title = {Youth-Led Climate Change Litigation: Crossing the North-South Divide},
year = {2023},
note = {This article provides a critical overview of youth-led climate change
litigation, an emerging practice which could go some way towards
redressing the injustice the Global South suffers as a result of
global warming. It preliminarily explores the political background of
such phenomenon, emphasising young people’s growing mistrust of
adults, their desire to build a global generational alliance, but also
the need to ally with older generations in a world where adults
generally monopolise power, money and accepted expertise. It then
delineates youth-led litigation’s distinctive features, both
substantive and procedural, highlighting its radicality. Children’s
and youth’s vulnerabilities enable innovative claims under the
public trust doctrine, rights-of-nature approaches, and human rights
law. Youth-led litigation is no less radical in terms of the
procedural avenues it is exploring, which include generational class
actions, direct multistate complaints before international
adjudicating bodies, and transnational complaints. The article
concludes by offering some thoughts on the prospects of youth-led
climate change litigation.},
journal = {VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee},
pages = {274--298},
author = {Gradoni, Lorenzo and Mantovani, Martina},
volume = {56},
number = {2}
}