Research and Scholarship

Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation

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June 25, 2024

Pace | Haub Environmental Law Professor Katrina Fischer Kuh co-authored a chapter in a book released today from MIT Press, Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation, edited by David Orr.

The chapter, titled Can the Constitution Save the Planet?, identifies how and why the constitutional status quo is failing to meet the climate moment. Professor Kuh co-wrote the chapter with colleague James May, Distinguished Professor of Law and Founder of the Global Environmental Rights Institute at Widener University Delaware School of Law. Professor May holds an LLM from and has previously served as a Visiting Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.

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