From:                                                       Geoff McLay <geoff.mclay@vuw.ac.nz>

Sent:                                                         Tuesday 6 February 2024 23:56

To:                                                            obligations@uwo.ca

Subject:                                                   NZSC allows climate change  public nuisance case to go to trial

 

Dear  all

 

The  case is here https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases/2024/2024-NZSC-5.pdf

 

The media release sets out the case well https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases/2024/MR-2024-NZSC-5.pdf

 

My tweets FWIW are here https://twitter.com/GeoffMcLay1/status/1754992942870409266

 

At one level the case is just another example of  the NZ  Supreme Court not wanting to strike out cases , at another level the case sets out a very different institutional competency approach to the Court of Appeal ,which essentially said courts couldn’t solve climate change and shouldn’t try.

 

There is an important section on the role of tikanga Māori ( Māori customary law) in determining what might be actionable damages

 

Geoff

 

Ps there are lots of footnotes that I’m sure will be of interest to members of the list

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: Michael Pressman <mpressman@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, 6 February 2024 at 8:30 AM
To: obligations@uwo.ca <obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject: Call for Applications for Fellowship

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Dear all,

 

I'm a postdoc with the Project on the Foundations of Private Law at Harvard, and we're looking for a new fellow for next year. We're wondering if you would be willing to distribute the two attached PDFs to anyone you think might be interested. Thank you in advance for your help!

 

Best, 

 

Michael Pressman

 

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Michael Pressman, JD, MA, PhD
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