This open access edited volume acknowledges that when judges adjudicate climate change issues, their decisions are shaped by far more than positive law. Adopting a pluriversal, socio-legal and multidisciplinary approach, chapters engage with an array of 'extra-legal' factors that inform what happens inside courtrooms, of relevance for climate action more broadly. These factors include judges' psychology; who is appointed as a judge and how that process is designed; legal culture and philosophy; who litigates and how litigation strategies are designed; literature; counter-hegemonic knowledge production; political ecology; climate anxiety; and climate science.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Newcastle Law School (United Kingdom), the Department of Land Economy, Cambridge and Queens' College, Cambridge.

Melanie Jean Murcott is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, with a dual position as Head of Public Interest at Lawtons Africa, a South African law firm.

Myriam Gicquello is Lecturer in Law at Newcastle University, United Kingdom.

Emily Webster was Assistant Professor in Environmental Law at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.