The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law

The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law offers a comprehensive scholarly assessment of the impacts of climate change for private law. It brings together a team of world-leading experts to examine the interface between private law and climate change, including how existing private law can respond to climate change and whether private law itself might be impacted by climate change. This Handbook joins theory and practice through jurisdictional case studies from the EU, Africa, the U.S., China, and more. It also includes an analysis of emerging issues from artificial intelligence to the horizontal effect of human rights. This authoritative analysis charts the path toward a new private law, one capable of stewarding and sustaining human relationships within, and with, a world in transition.

Douglas Kysar is Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law at Yale University and faculty director of the Law, Environment and Animals Program. His teaching and research areas include torts, environmental law, climate change, animal law, products liability, and risk regulation. Kysar was previously on the faculty at Cornell Law School. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1995 and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Ernest Lim is the Chan Sek Keong Professor of Private Law and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. An internationally recognised scholar, his research expertise in comparative corporate governance and private law addresses critical global challenges: sustainability and artificial intelligence. He has delivered keynotes at leading universities across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and has acted as an expert witness on corporate law. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University and a master's from Harvard Law School. He previously practised law at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York and Hong Kong.