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The Limits of Human Rights Law: A Reply to Corina Heri
Abstract
In this reply to Corina Heri, I argue that her article confuses human rights violations associated with the impacts of climate change with a putative class of violations going to the causation of climate change. Because the latter class has no prospect of being realized, the scope of Heri’s argument is much narrower than she makes out. Human rights law is limited to impact cases. It adds nothing to climate change mitigation law.
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