Law
Join CULS x Cambridge Climate Society for a panel discussion on Climate Change and the Law! The event brings together leading experts to explore how legal systems are adapting to the climate crisis following the ICJ’s 2025 Advisory opinion. Speakers include Dr Lovleen Bhullar (who will be covering the content of the ICJ…
Register here if attending online Lecture summary: In the last several decades, scholarly views of due diligence in international law have shifted from due diligence as a primary obligation under customary international law, to due diligence as a standard of conduct attached to a primary obligation. Thus, for example, due diligence is required to meet…
Speaker: Visiting PhD researcher Maryam Yabo Abstract: This research applies a Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) lens to the international community’s responses to the climate crisis. It argues that while these responses aim to advance decarbonisation and global justice, they often reproduce the epistemic…
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm What are the current dialogues that occur (or not) between non-dominant (i.e., non-Western, non-White, and non-Anglophone) feminist actors in global governance? In this conversation between Professor Gina Heathcote (Newcastle Law School) and Dr Amena Yassine (Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), they explore this question by looking from the following departure…
Speaker: Professor Harro van Asselt, Hatton Professor of Climate Law The lecture will be followed by a Panel on: The Prospects of Global Climate Law Moderator: Professor Jorge E. Viñuales Panelists: Professor Francesco Sindico Professor Joana Setzer Professor Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh Professor Annalisa Savaresi Harro van Asselt is the Hatton Professor of Climate Law with the…
A Cambridge professor and counsel team member for Vanuatu gives his initial views on the landmark ICJ Advisory Opinion. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the judicial arm of the United Nations – known as the ‘world court’ – has issued a historic Advisory Opinion on the legal obligations of States in respect of…
A Cambridge professor and counsel team member for Vanuatu gives his initial views on the landmark ICJ Advisory Opinion. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the judicial arm of the United Nations – known as the ‘world court’ – has issued a historic Advisory Opinion on the legal obligations of States in respect of…
The ‘world court’ and climate change A Cambridge professor and counsel team member for Vanuatu gives his initial views on the landmark ICJ Advisory Opinion. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the judicial arm of the United Nations – known as the ‘world court’ – has issued a historic Advisory Opinion on the legal…
Please join us for a fascinating report launch and panel discussion, at 2-4pm on Tuesday 22nd July 2025, Christ’s College (via the Great Gate on St Andrew’s Street). The Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) is hosting a report launch event in collaboration with the Centre for Sport and Human Rights. The CPP project for the…
Speaker: Dr Samvel Varvastian (Lecturer in Law, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University) The Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) is hosting a seminar series throughout the 2024- 25 academic year. We live in the age of the triple planetary crisis – climate change…