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A Quest for an Eco-centric Approach to International Law: the COVID-19 Pandemic as Game Changer

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doi:10.1007/s42439-020-00031-0

Authors

Sara De Vido

Reported year

2020

Reported language

en

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article

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2026-11-09T19:13:16.534719+00:00

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2026-11-09T19:18:33.130943+00:00

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Ca' Foscari University of Venice · University of Manchester

Documentary abstract — original language

Abstract This Reflection starts from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as unprecedented occasio to reflect on the approach to international law, which—it is contended—is anthropocentric, and its inadequacy to respond to current challenges. In the first part, the Reflection argues that there is, more than ever, an undeferrable need for a change of approach to international law toward ecocentrism, which puts the environment at the center and conceives the environment as us, including humans, non-human beings, and natural objects. To encourage the incorporation of ecocentrism in the entire discipline, the Reflection will rely on some insight of ecofeminism, whose potential has not been fully investigated in international legal scholarship. In the second part, the Reflection illustrates what an eco-centric international law would mean, imagining three possible applications: first, what the author has called environmental global health, which is connected to the current pandemic and puts into question the proposals dealing with global health that completely miss the theorization of the environment as a whole; second, how actors of international law would change according to an eco-centric perspective; and, third, how the rules prohibiting the use of force might be reconceptualized. The analysis contained in these pages cannot itself exhaust all the possible nuances of the legal reasoning, but it is aimed at being a provocative starting point for a change in the mindset and approach of international legal scholarship.

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W3099116695

DOI

10.1007/s42439-020-00031-0

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• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1007/s42439-020-00031-0
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W3099116695

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