In International Environmental Law
In international environmental law it is mentioned in Principle 16 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.
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“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)