This article was originally written as a section of my piece Interconnected Law: socio-ecological thinking about law (An Overview), but I thought it deserved a stand-alone blog post too. The underlying idea of Interconnected Law and socio-ecological relations is therefore absent here. To give a brief summary: humans, society, and nature are interwoven in dense […]
A Socio-ecological Approach to Human Rights
June 29, 2026
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.
Interconnected Law Notes Archive
May 1, 2026
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.
A Very Short Introduction to Interconnected Law
March 26, 2026
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: 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