How do we build greater responsiveness int o our legal systems? Ben Mylius and Michelle Maloney
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How do we build greater responsiveness into our legal systems?
Ben Mylius and Michelle Maloney
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Preliminaries
• format: facilitated discussion– some introductory ideas– brainstorming, discussion, exploration– sparking thought and questions
• importance of developing a positive vision to underpin and guide practical change
• intellectual, imaginative and creative capacities as assets to the Earth Jurisprudence movement
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Guiding questions for discussion
• What does a more adaptable legal system look like? – What are its characteristics?
• At what level/s of our current legal systems does change need to occur?– Individual statutes and regulations? Regulatory
frameworks? Institutional design and powers? Values? Jurisprudence? All of the above?
• Where do we look for models and resources in other disciplines, or ecocentric exceptions in our own, that can help us design these adaptable legal systems?
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1. What does ‘adaptable’ look like?
Adaptability/resilience:‘the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance
and reorganise while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedback’
- Carl Folke et al, Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems (2005) 30 Annual Review of Environmental Resources 441, 443
(our emphasis)
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Discussion
• What do we mean by ‘adaptable’?– to what?– in what way?– to what end?
• Different scenarios: – an unexpected crisis situation emerges (eg: Deep Water
Horizon).• How does law swing into action?
– a long-term crisis is developing (eg: the Murray Darling). • How does law swing into action here? • Does this involve different principles to crisis engagement?
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2. Where are we adaptable?
(building on work by Alessandro Pelizzon, Liz Rivers, et al)
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Principles and approaches• Systems thinking: reshape systems, not just symptoms• Smart regulation: look beyond the discipline of law, use multiple instruments of different
types simultaneously• Behavioural sophistication: change behaviour through law, awareness raising, and values• Streamlining and cost reduction: simplify regulatory schemes and market arrangements
to reduce inefficiency• Collaborative governance: private, public and NGO shareholders pursuing common goals• Empowering private initiatives: give NGOS and citizens the ability to act on behalf of
ecosystems• Risk management: develop a better understanding of risk; expand the range of risk
approaches; address risk arising from laws themselves• Scientific theorising: articulate the theories that underlie interventions, and use evidence
to evaluate the implementation of those theories– adapted from Paul Martin and Neil Gunningham, Leading reform of natural resource management
law: Core principles (2011) 28 EPLJ 137, 138-9
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3. Where do we find inspiration?
What other disciplines have models, resources, approaches? - Who’s doing this work?- What work is going on in law already?- How do we collaborate with those disciplines?- How do we incorporate their insights into law?
Where are the ‘seeds’ of ecocentric or adaptive regulation in existing law and legal systems?- ‘trigger’ mechanisms?- sunset clauses?- reversing burdens of proof? - other creative ideas!
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