LUMEN Video-Pill with Michele Carducci on Law, Ecological Crisis, and Systemic Adaptation

Following the launch of the first video with Ávila Santamaría, the LUMEN project’s Video-Pills series – Law of natUre and huMan Ecosystem approach – continues with a new interview focusing on the relationship between the climate crisis and the transformation of law.

This second video-pill features an interview with Michele Carducci, full professor of Comparative Constitutional Law and holder of the first university course in Italy on Comparative Law of Climate Change at the University of Salento. Carducci coordinates the Euro-American Research Center on Constitutional Policies and the Ecological Legal Analysis Laboratory; he has been an IPCC reviewer and currently acts as amicus curiae in national and international climate litigation, collaborating with networks of lawyers and environmental activists.

The interview was conducted by Silvia Zanini, a member of the LUMEN research unit at the University of Trieste, during the hybrid conference “Ecological Law and Ecosystem Approach for the Construction of a New Transcultural Eco-Legal Paradigm” held in Florence on November 19-20, 2024.

Carducci explores the adaptive responses of complex systems to the ecological crisis, in particular the temporal disconnection between law and nature. He also introduces the concept of ecological legal analysis, a new legal instrument oriented towards climate emergency. Finally, he discusses positive signs of change in the European context