The Green Transition and Constitutionalism

This research theme focuses on how public and constitutional law both creates and addresses the triple planetary crisis (climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss). We investigate political and judicial institutions to examine how contemporary constitutional arrangements and their institutions are fit to address these challenges, caused by human activity. Within this area, individual researchers within CECS have expertise in public and constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, constitution making, legislative processes, public international law, EU-law and human rights law. The research themes within this research group include access to justice, inter-generational equity, sustainability, new developments in human rights protection, democratic representation, suffrage, rights-based regulatory and litigious action to address and prevent climate change and biodiversity crises (just transitions), disaster risk reduction and response, rights of nature and rights of non-human entities, as well as the regulatory intersections of disaster, climate change and human mobility. We also engage in practical and theoretical conversations about developments of rights to and of a healthy environment and sustainability in national, European and international contexts.

Annemette Fallentin Nyborg