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Facing the Future: Conceiving Legal Obligations Towards Future Generations
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Abstract Conceiving legal obligations towards future generations is challenging -especially from a positivist stance and if obligations and claims are understood as being correlative in nature. Legal obligations towards future generations are often rejected from the outset if (and insofar as) there is no exp... mehr
Conceiving legal obligations towards future generations is challenging -especially from a positivist stance and if obligations and claims are understood as being correlative in nature. Legal obligations towards future generations are often rejected from the outset if (and insofar as) there is no explicit acknowledgement or established doctrine. This neglects the power of sound legal interpretation. I argue that obligations towards future people and generations are grounded in the relational character of human rights and that their positivity is not a problem in a legal order containing norm texts that can reasonably be interpreted as acknowledging human rights; no additional enactment is necessary for these obligations to be part of the positive law. This claim is based on a (novel) concept of fundamental rights which is compatible with legal positivism.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Menschenrechte; Rechtstheorie; Rechtspositivismus; Staatsrecht; Verfassungsrecht; Rechtsordnung; Grundrecht
Klassifikation
Recht
Freie Schlagwörter
future generations; intergenerational justice
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2024
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 12 (2024)
Heftthema
Considering Future Generations in Democratic Governance
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)