Hope

Abstract

This panel investigates the concept of hope through a number of diverse approaches and lenses, thereby focusing on a variety of topics: to what extent and how hope can become an object of investigation in scholarship on environmental law, thinking about it when it comes to aspirational environmental law duties, progressive rights of nature, and experimental declarations of climate emergency; to what extent law can provide a framework within which individual hope can be realised, collectivised to a group, and aligned with societal values as articulated in foundational legal texts, taking the EU as a case study; what it might mean to construct hope as a right, in particular through the notion of the ‘right to hope’ as articulated by the European Court of Human Rights in recent years; and what hope can be detected in political texts, presenting findings from the classification of texts of a cross-disciplinary course offered at an Irish university.

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Hope and Law in the European Union	View Paper Details
Living with a sense of a right to hope	View Paper Details
An Act of Hope? Law, the Environment and Future Generation	View Paper Details
Research-Led Learning in Action: Classifying Hope in Political Texts Through Student Involvement	View Paper Details