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.
This article is a very short introduction and intends to seed further reading. It is a condensed version of ‘An Overview of Interconnected Law’.
5 – 10 minute engagement time.
Interconnected Law is a new legal paradigm in which law should cultivate harmonious socio-ecological relations. This article offers an introductory overview.
20 – 30 minute engagement time.
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
