The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law

The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law offers a comprehensive scholarly assessment of the impacts of climate change for private law. It brings together a team of world-leading experts to examine the interface between private law and climate change, including how existing private law can respond to climate change and whether private law itself might be impacted by climate change. This Handbook joins theory and practice through jurisdictional case studies from the EU, Africa, the U.S., China, and more. It also includes an analysis of emerging issues from artificial intelligence to the horizontal effect of human rights. This authoritative analysis charts the path toward a new private law, one capable of stewarding and sustaining human relationships within, and with, a world in transition.

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Law and Economics
Chapter 3 - Critical and Social Theory
Chapter 4 - Relational Justice
Chapter 5 - Consumer Climate Contracts
Chapter 6 - Contract Law
Chapter 7 - Common Law Torts
Chapter 8 - Causation and Climate Change in Tort
Chapter 9 - Civil Law Torts
Chapter 10 - Products Liability
Chapter 11 - Consumer Protection
Chapter 12 - Unjust Enrichment and Climate Litigation
Chapter 13 - Fiduciary Law
Chapter 14 - Property Law
Chapter 15 - Cultures of Land Use and Ownership
Chapter 16 - Intellectual Property
Chapter 17 - Trusts
Chapter 18 - Corporate Law and Governance
Chapter 19 - Climate Disclosure in the Global South
Chapter 20 - Finance
Chapter 21 - Competition Law
Chapter 22 - Insurance Law
Chapter 23 - Securities Regulation
Chapter 24 - Bankruptcy Law
Chapter 25 - International Commercial Arbitration
Chapter 26 - Labour Law
Chapter 27 - Maritime Law
Chapter 28 - Investor-State Disputes
Chapter 29 - Corporate Sustainability and the European Union
Chapter 30 - Non-Governmental Organisations and Private Standard Setting
Chapter 31 - Private Environmental Governance
Chapter 32 - Private International Law
Chapter 33 - The European Union
Chapter 34 - The United Kingdom
Chapter 35 - The United States
Chapter 36 - India
Chapter 37 - Australasia
Chapter 38 - East and Southeast Asia
Chapter 39 - Africa
Chapter 40 - China
Chapter 41 - Brazil
Chapter 42 - Legal Education
Chapter 43 - Lawyers and Law Firms
Chapter 44 - Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 45 - The Horizontal Effect of Fundamental Rights
Chapter 46 - Indigenous Peoples

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 has delivered keynotes at leading universities across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and has acted as an expert witness on corporate law. 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.