An approach to law based on interconnection
Socio-ecological thinking challenges the traditional approaches to human rights, based on an abstracted bounded individual subject atomised out of social relations and separated from any ecological world. Here, a socio-ecological relational approach is taken to human rights.
This is a 90-page archive of Alex May’s notes on the Interconnected Law project. This document has been prepared by an editor in case it is of use to anyone interested in the archive and working with it.
Interconnected Law is a new legal paradigm: that recognising we live in a relational socio-ecological world, legal systems should function to transform society towards more just social and ecological relations.
The main thrust was that understanding law relationally, and in particular its role in reproducing the social order, is key to understanding the rule of law and law’s entanglement in current political crises
