Six honest serving-men: Climate change litigation as legal mobilization and the utility of typologies

Climate Law

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-61

  Ghaleigh, Navraj Singh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84870030600     PISSN: 18786553     EISSN: 18786561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/cl-2010-003     Document Type: Article

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