This project explores the role of international law in creating, governing, and responding to intersecting socio-ecological inequalities. It builds upon different theoretical approaches and traditions within and beyond international law (e.g. law and political economy, post/decolonial theory, feminist theory, political ecology, critical security studies) to examine the biases and limitations of the existing legal framework, but also the possibilities of it being ‘Otherwise’.

It explores how different actors, including Global South states and environmental justice movements, engage international law and legal concepts to account for the unequal precarities of the climate catastrophe. In doing so, this project aims to open spaces to reconceptualize foundational doctrines that are essential to grapple with socio-ecological disruptions.