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The Republic of Vanuatu has secured the co-sponsorship of no less than 105 States for the submission to vote by the UN General Assembly of a Draft Resolution requesting the International Court of Justice, dubbed the ‘World Court’, to provide an advisory opinion on climate change under international law. Cambridge Centre…
The fifth 2022-3 session of the monthly seminar run by the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy will take place at 3:00pm on Thursday, February 16th, through Zoom . The session will be chaired by Agnes Lindberg, who is a PhD student in the Law Faculty. As the reading for the session, she has…
Lecture Summary: The survival of our planet requires swift and targeted climate policies to adapt, mitigate and repair. Scientists and political elites acknowledge the urgency to reduce our reliance on coal and fossil fuels to achieve the necessary reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Academics have been studying the impacts of investment treaty protections on climate…
Speaker: Dr Julia Dehm, Senior Lecturer, La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University The Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) is hosting a seminar series throughout the 2022 23 academic year. Seminars take place as hybrid meetings (in person seminars in the DAB – David…
Lecture summary: How do state officials learn and implement obligations from multiple regimes? Global problems do not fit neatly into siloed fields of professional specialisation. For example, of the increasingly alarming problems facing the ocean – climate change, marine plastics debris, biodiversity loss, or overfishing – not one can be addressed without inter-agency cooperation and…
Lecture summary: International lawyers are well-aware of the theoretical and practical imperatives for interaction between disparate fields of professional specialisation within the discipline. This is perhaps best exemplified by ocean governance. Not one of the significant global problems facing the ocean – and there are countless alarming examples, including climate change, marine plastics debris, biodiversity…
Speaker: Karla Zambrano González (University of Valencia, Spain) She is an EU Climate Pact Ambassador and PhD candidate at University of Valencia, Spain. Her research is entitled: “The challenge of climate change in international and European law” and it is being conducted by Prof. Dr. Valentín Bou Franch. Her principal…
Title: ‘Climate Change Litigation against Companies: Consequences of the 2021 Judgment in the Shell Case’ Speaker: Professor Dr Marc-Philippe Weller, Vice-Rector for Internal Affairs and Director of the Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws, and International Business Law, Heidelberg University. He is also co-…
Lecture details to follow. Dr Christina Voigt is Professor of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is an internationally renowned expert in international environmental law and teaches, speaks and publishes widely on legal issues of climate change, environmental multilateralism and sustainability. From 2009-2018, she worked as principal legal adviser for the Government of…
Hughes Hall intends to establish a major new research initiative in Climate Law and Governance in conjunction with its Centre for Climate Engagement. This includes two stipendiary senior research or post-doctoral positions to pursue research on law and climate change. The first position will have a focus on UK company law…