Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation: Advancing Future Generations Rights through National

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Economic, technological, social and environmental transformations are affecting all humanity, and decisions taken today will impact the quality of life for all future generations. This volume surveys current commitments to sustainable development, analysing innovative policies, practices and procedures to promote respect for intergenerational justice. Expert contributors provide serious scholarly and practical discussions of the theoretical, institutional, and legal considerations inherent in intergenerational justice at local, national, regional and global scales. They investigate treaty commitments related to intergenerational equity, explore linkages between regimes, and offer insights from diverse experiences of national future generations' institutions. This volume should be read by lawyers, academics, policy-makers, business and civil society leaders interested in the economy, society, the environment, sustainable development, climate change, and other law, policy and practices impacting all generations.

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, Full Professor of Law at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Executive Secretary to the Climate Law and Governance Initiative, a UNFCCC partnership supporting implementation of the Paris Agreement. She serves as Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Chair of the Future Board for Bit Bio, on the Board of the International Law Association, as a Law Fellow and DoS for Lucy Cavendish College, a founding Fellow of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (CEENRG) and affiliated Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) in Cambridge. Author or editor of over twenty books and 120 papers, she edits the Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development series for Cambridge University Press and serves on the editorial boards of several law journals, also advising countries and international organisation on treaty commitments on climate change, biodiversity, trade, investment and other Sustainable Development Goals. Marcel Szabo is Full Professor and Head of the Department of European Law at Pazmany Peter Catholic University (Budapest). Besides his academic career, between 2011-2012 Professor Szabo represented the Hungarian Government in front of the International Court of Justice in the Hague, between 2012-2016 ha was the Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and Ombudsman for Future Generations in Hungary. Professor Szabo was elected as justice at the Constitutional Court of Hungary in 2016, for twelve years. He is Founder and Honorary Chair of the Network of Institutions of Future Generations. His main areas of research are international environmental law, rights of future generations, responsibility of states in public international law, and public international law and EU-law in the case-law of the Constitutional Court of Hungary. Professor Szabo is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law. Alexandra R. Harrington is Research Director and Lead Counsel (Peace, Justice and Governance) with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law and Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. She serves as the Director of Studies for ILA Colombia, a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and Visiting Professor at Albany Law School. Dr Harrington is the author of International Organizations and the Law and the forthcoming International Law and Global Governance: Treaty Regimes and Sustainable Development Goals Interpretation as well as dozens of articles and book chapters.