The Interconnected Law Project The Interconnected Law project is looking to be part of a paradigm shift in how we understand and use law. Paradigms are ways of understanding things, a framework for interpreting and understanding the world. They are constellations of concepts, values, perceptions and practises that form part of a vision of reality, […]

The ‘interconnected’ approach to law is a relational approach. This means that it understands humans as relational beings, recognises the way that law affects these relationships, and frames law’s objective(s) in a relational way. This article is heavily influenced and draws from Jennifer Nedelsky’s book Law’s Relations: A Relational Theory of Self, Autonomy, and Law. […]

Our planet, the natural world we live in and with, is being destroyed by us. It is more than that we are damaging our environment, what surrounds us; we are destroying the conditions which we need to live and survive. This has been known for years, yet still we continue. Climate change is probably the […]

Interconnected Law is came out of three sets of existing scholarship: Earth Jurisprudence, relational approaches to law, and systems theory. Each of these both critiques existing legal systems (in the context of broader political, economic and social systems) and proposes how law should be instead. It seemed to me that these should be drawn together […]