Legal Scholar Expects COVID Lawsuits To Shape Future Climate Litigation

Litigation over the wide-ranging effects of the coronavirus pandemic could help shape climate change lawsuits in a variety of aspects, according to one academic scholar, including by testing two legal theories that could prod greater climate change action and one that could curtail aggressive policies that harm private industry. Specifically, University of Connecticut law professor Sara Bronin argues in a new paper that three areas of virus-related lawsuits could be relevant to climate suits: claims that the government “failed to...