THOUGHTS ON LEGAL SUSTAINABILITY- ‘NIHIL SUB SOLE NOVUM.’
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The most frequently cited definition of sustainable development comes from the UN World Commission on Environment and Development as a ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.’ This paper seeks an answer to the question of where the role of law can be placed in the conceptual framework of ‘sustainability’; what is law like if it is sustainable; what the classic and modern interpretation of this concepts are; also how do these approaches relate to the lessons of legal history, and specifically to the lessons of certain stages of the history of Hungarian state and law as sustainability turns. The conclusion is a new definition of sustainable law rooted in legal historical research, which can also be a common denominator for different aspects of sustainability.
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