1 Lanzhou University (Lanzhou, China)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/up/17/2
Received: 12 August 2025 / Accepted: 17 November 2025 / Published: 30 December 2025
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Abstract
Keywords: Decolonizing International Environmental Law, Critical Race Theory, Indigenous Legal Cosmologies, Epistemic Justice, Treaty Interpretation, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Epistemic Weighting Matrix, Cosmological Ontology Embedder, Dynamic Precedent Override; Plural Legal Epistemologies; Indigenous Jurisprudence; Environmental Governance
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