Biography, Legal Ethics and the Climate Crisis

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Abstract

This chapter suggests that lawyer biographies have proven to be a critical source of empirical material, unearthing important connections between lawyers’ endeavours and social change. Unlike most other kinds of studies, a biography can reveal how lawyers have forged identities over time, and sought to create meaning, through their work. Understanding how their identities and exercises of meaning making have interacted with legal norms, such as rules of legal ethics, can help explain how and why lawyers have either helped ameliorate or exacerbate climate change.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch Handbook on the Sociology of Legal Ethics
EditorsScott L. Cummings, Tamara Butter, Ole Hammerslev, Sergio Iván Anzola Rodríguez
Place of PublicationCheltenham
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Chapter3
Pages37-52
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9781800880566, 9781035377190
ISBN (Print)9781800880559
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Nov 2025

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