Librarian Nicholas Stump to Publish New Scholarship in the William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

This Article explores how Critical Legal Research (CLR) can help drive transformations of our ecological political economy towards true system change. CLR entails a critical legal theory-informed approach to legal and broader socio-legal research. After articulating the CLR framework, this Article explores its potential in the context of leading and intertwined bodies of theory for transformative change: ecosocialism, degrowth, and Global South and Indigenous thought. Next, this Article offers concrete avenues to help pursue such emancipatory change—i.e., specifically focusing on the popular conception of an "ecosocialist transition." Ecosocialist transition strategies include non-reformist reforms, dual power, a radical just transition, and joining ecosocialism with a broader global movement of movements. As this Article contends, such ecosocialist transition strategies can be powerfully informed by CLR via embedding CLR within bottom-up forms of socio-legal praxis, such as radical movement lawyering. Ultimately, such CLR praxis constitutes an emerging and vital, yet still largely underutilized, dimension in the struggles to combat white patriarchal capitalism and to pursue ecologically viable and socially emancipatory futures.