An Ecofeminist Approach to Article 7 of the Rome II Regulation: Assessing Slow Violence in Environmental Damages
I. Introduction Private international law, historically established to resolve cross-border disputes through choice-of-law rules governing jurisdiction and applicable law, currently faces challenges in the era of climate change. Mostly, if not every, environmental damage is a matter of “slow violence” that unfolds diffusely and spreads across borders. Rox Nixon characterised slow violence as an event of gradual, delayed environmental destruction that is “scientifically convoluted,” operating...