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This book is a collection of speculative judgments that, along with accompanying commentaries, pursue a novel enquiry into how judges might respond to the formidable and planetary scaled challenges of the Anthropocene.
List of contents
List of Contributors x
Acknowledgements xvii
1 Judging the Future and the Future of Judging: The Anthropocene Judgments Project 1
NICOLE ROGERS
PART I
Multispecies Justice 17
2 Takayna/Tarkine and the EPBC Act: From Heritage Frameworks to Habitat Thinking 19
BRAD JESSUP AND CHRISTINE PARKER
3 Are Nonhuman Animals Entitled to Dignity, Privacy, and Non- Exploitation?: A Smart Dairy Farm of the Future 39
NATALIA SZABLEWSKA AND CLARA MANCINI
4 The Sea Casts Its Net of Justice Wide: A Speculative Judgment for What Has Been Left to the Waters of Despair 59
FOLUKE I ADEBISI
5 Swan by Her Litigation Representative Bella Donna of the Champions v Administrative Algorithmic Transformer and Minister for Immigration and Border Protection 72
ANDRE DAO
PART II
Intergenerational Justice 83
6 The Doctrine of Quantum Entanglement 85
KATE GALLOWAY
7 The Case of Young People v Government of Ireland 101
AOIFE DALY AND ORLA KELLEHER
8 The Truth and Reparations Commission: Climate Reparations for the Anthropocene 117
ZOE NAY AND JULIA DEHM
9 How to Blow Up a Coalmine: The Trial of the Waratah 7 134
NICOLE ROGERS
10 Piccadilly Circus Water Lilies: A Judgment on Participation and Place Experience in Future Planning Decisions 149
CHIARA ARMENI
PART III
Postcolonial Justice 165
11 The Problem with Cooperative Action Problems: Conceptions of Agency and the Understanding of Environmental Crises 167
OSCAR DAVIS, BINDI BENNETT, AND KELLY MENZEL
12 A Voice, Truth and Treaty Thought Experiment 177
ROBERT CUNNINGHAM
13 The Disillusion of International Law 195
JO BIRD AND GRETA BIRD
14 Imagining Ecocentric Bioregional Law in Australia 209
MICHELLE MALONEY
15 A Bleak Future Beckons Climate Refugees 225
AYESHA RIAZ
PART IV
After the Anthropocene 241
16 How Will 2050 Forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Judge the Anthropocene? 243
TANIA SOURDIN AND CHATGPT
17 After the Law 259
ELENA CIRKOVIC
18 Former People of Planet Earth v the World Corporate Alliance 273
SUSAN BIRD AND MARK BRADY
19 More-Than-Human Relations on the Third Rock from the Sun 286
MICHELLE LIM
Index 301
About the author
Nicole Rogers is Professor of Law at Bond University, Australia.
Michelle Maloney is Co-Founder and National Convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance.
