What role could or should the law play in dealing with the climateemergency? In this innovative volume, leading scholars explorefundamental debates at the frontier of climate change law scholarship.They address the key areas of scholarly disagreement about what climatechange law is, the legal rules it consists of, and how these rules couldbe implemented in the real world. The first eleven topics are debatedby teams of scholars expressing diametrically opposite points of view oneach topic, in traditional debating style; the last seven chapters arepresented as an individual author's own reflection on a topic thatcannot readily be reduced to a binary debate. Each chapter is written inan accessible and thought-provoking way, emphasizing clear lines ofargumentation. The debating-style format is designed to stimulatestudents to think critically and logically about the law and to fire updebate in and out of class.