Child/youth climate litigation: tracking children’s rights and and children’s impact

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dc.contributor.authorDaly, Aoifeen
dc.contributor.authorMuller, Liesl Heilaen
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-24T14:42:17Z
dc.date.available2025-09-24T14:42:17Z
dc.date.issued2025-07en
dc.description.abstractChildren and youth have been engaging extensively in climate action around the world. They have been doing this by protesting in the streets, talking with governments, and most recently by taking climate litigation against governments and companies. In this Article, these climate cases are considered from a children’s rights perspective. Using the Youth Climate Justice database, fifty cases are analyzed to consider two aspects of climate litigation—the children’s rights involved in the case, and the significance of the outcomes of the cases. It is concluded that climate cases are a new form of child participation in society, and that child participation has moved from (1) being something primarily aimed at benefiting children to (2) a phenomenon that can benefit the human rights of all.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationDaly, A. and Muller, L. (2025) 'Child/youth climate litigation: tracking children’s rights and and children’s impact', Washington & Lee Law Review 82(3), pp. 1049-1072. https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr/vol82/iss3/7en
dc.identifier.endpage1075en
dc.identifier.issn0043-0463en
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleWashington & Lee Law Reviewen
dc.identifier.startpage1049en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17895
dc.identifier.volume82en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWashington & Lee Law Reviewen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE::ERC::HORIZON-ERC/101088453/EU/Child-friendly justice for the climate crisis: Post-paternalist judgments, litigation, participation/YOUTHCLIMATEJUSTICEen
dc.relation.urihttps://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr/vol82/iss3/7/en
dc.rights© 2025, the Authors.en
dc.subjectChildren’s rightsen
dc.subjectChildren’s impacten
dc.subjectYouth Climate Justice databaseen
dc.subjectClimate litigationen
dc.subjectChild participation in societyen
dc.titleChild/youth climate litigation: tracking children’s rights and and children’s impacten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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