Law and sustainability: Perspectives for Lithuania and Beyond
Keywords:
public law, investment law, private law, Lithuania, constitutional jurisprudence, personal data protectionSynopsis
Law fostering sustainability and sustainable development is one of the fastest-developing, most challenging legal disciplines globally. Sustainability has many different definitions, but its essence was articulated by the Brundtland Commission, tasked by the UN in 1987 to formulate a global agenda for change: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” The edited volume Law and Sustainability analyses the ways on how law and legal profession should change and contribute to sustainability.
Chapters
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I. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC LAW: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CONDITIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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I.1. Sustainable development and artificial intelligence: Is AI4ESG a key driver to reach the objectives of UN Agenda 2030? ........... 29
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I.2. The concept of sustainability in national Constitutions: Insights from constitutional jurisprudence ........... 45
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I.3.The efficiency of green public procurement regulation in Lithuania as an element of achieving objectives of sustainable development ........... 61
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I.4. Sustainable development and international investment law: A look at the new generation of international investment agreements ........... 73
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I.5. Privacy-friendly personal data processing and sustainability: Is there mutual support? ........... 93
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I.6. Sustainable work over the course of life: A new paradigm for decent work ........... 107
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II. SUSTAINABILITY AND PRIVATE LAW
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II.1. The legal consequences of apparent authority for sustainable agency relationships ........... 137
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II.2. The change of commercial contractual relations influenced by sustainability clauses ........... 153
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II.3. The role of the product quality guarantee in promoting sustainable consumption: Lithuanian experience ........... 169
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II.4. Corporate sustainability and the shareholder activism problem ........... 185
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II.5. The remote participation of shareholders in the general meetings of private companies as a tool for more inclusive shareholder engagement ........... 207
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II.6. The main directions in the sustainable development of legal regulation of reorganization in Ukraine ........... 225
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II.7. Access to justice in civil cases: Filling the gap in the sustainable development agenda ........... 241
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III. TRANSFORMATION OF CRIMINAL LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABILITY
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III.1. Environmental crime: Lithuanian criminal policy in the context of European regulation ........... 257
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III.2. The principle of subsidiarity of criminal law as a prerequisite for sustainable criminalization ........... 275
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III.3. Decriminalization of the illicit possession of small quantities of drugs and the sustainable reduction of drug consumption ........... 293
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III.4. Accessible and sustainable criminal justice: The right of an incapacited accused person to be present at a court hearing ........... 309
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III.5. Encouraging coordinated vulnerability disclosure: The protection of vulnerability reporters ........... 341
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IV. SUSTAINABILITY IN ACTION: EXAMPLES AND EXPERIENCES OF SUSTAINABILITY FROM THE LEGAL POINT OF VIEW
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IV.1. The implementation of the sustainable development principle in zoning and planning regulations: The Lithuanian case ........... 367
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IV.2. The problem of sustainable legal regulation of electric vehicle infrastructure ........... 381
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IV.3. The links between sustainability and electrification in the regulatory framework of EU and Lithuania ........... 399
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IV.4. Contribution to the sustainable development agenda by calculating and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the waste management sector ........... 417
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IV.5. Sustainability: Bridging the gaps between law, finance, and technology ........... 431
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IV.6. The sustainability of the legal profession: Lawyers’ role in the future regulation of pandemic and war responses ........... 445