Climate Litigation andthe Right to a Fair Trial

Abstract

SCCL: A research centre at the heart of the action 
25 years on the frontlines

The Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL) is celebrating its 25th anniversary, a quarter of a century in which jurisprudential and legal dialogues have filled the Centre and spilled out into the wider legal community. One of the SCCL’s key contributions to Swedish legal life during this time has been to serve as a vibrant forum for discussing matters at the forefront of commercial (and occasionally non-commercial) legal developments. In the interplay between academics and practitioners the SCCL has created a platform that has the ability to track fast-moving developments in real time and at the same time can put them into a broader context.
Sometimes these discussions have centred on a common European civil code, or banking crises, or what binds the Nordic legal systems together. These are themes that have anchored the jurisprudential and legal discourse in a wider social context. In recent times, there is one theme that is characterised by this more than any other. The climate issue. And especially so-called climate litigation.