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13 GlobCon 1 (2024)

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Global Constitutionalism (2024), 13: 1, 1-12
doi:10.1017/20453817240000


CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY  PRESS


Stephanie  Law      Jo Shaw     , Jonathan Havercroft       Susan Kang      and
Antje Wiener1'

'University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
2University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, United Kingdom
3CUNY   John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, 524 West 59th Street, New York,
New  York, NY 10019, United States
4University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Von-Melle-Park 5, 20146
Hamburg,  Germany
5University of Cambridge, Hughes Hall, Cambridge CB1 2EW,United Kingdom
Corresponding  author: Stephanie Law; Email: 'La  so c


Keywords:  climate change; consumer law; private law; public international law; public-interest litigation;
strategic litigation


Private  actors and  institutions, and by  extension  private law  itself, are increasingly being
forced to reckon  with  a multiplicity of challenges that extend beyond   the domain   of private
law as it is traditionally conceived. These crises have stemmed   inter alia from the urgency  of


   'For the purposes of this editorial, the notion of private law is understood to encompass both substantive
private law and private international law; the latter provides for a set of procedural rules governing the
resolution of international or cross-border civil disputes before national courts, namely on jurisdiction,
applicable law and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. See further, T Pfeiffer, 'Private
International Law' (2008) Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law, available at <https://
opii oupl ac   /dipla10.1093/1aw     il 97 80199231690/law-9780199231690-e1458>.
© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms
of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (h ttp://crea i n glses/.0),   which permits unrestricted
re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.