Law

Seminar: International investment law and arbitration in the renewable energy sector – Quo Vadis?

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Seminar summary: Energy is ‘the backbone of our economies’. As part of the overall energy supply, renewable energy is more important than ever. It is an important element in the fight against climate change and is relevant in the context of Sustainable Development Goals. The years 2022 and 2023 witnessed ground-breaking…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: ‘Exiting the Energy Charter Treaty under the Law of Treaties’ – Dr Tibisay Morgandi, Queen Mary University of London & Professor Lorand Bartels, University of Cambridge

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Register online Lecture summary: The Energy Charter Treaty was concluded in 1994 on the assumption that fossil fuels could continue to be used for the foreseeable future. This article examines how ECT contracting parties can now withdraw from this treaty for climate change reasons without being subject to its ‘sunset’ clause, which protects existing investments…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: ‘Exiting the Energy Charter Treaty under the Law of Treaties’ – Dr Tibisay Morgandi, Queen Mary University of London

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Register online Lecture summary: The Energy Charter Treaty was concluded in 1994 on the assumption that fossil fuels could continue to be used for the foreseeable future. This article examines how ECT contracting parties can now withdraw from this treaty for climate change reasons without being subject to its ‘sunset’ clause, which protects existing investments…

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Jorge Viñuales advises Vanuatu in bid to request an advisory opinion on climate change from the ‘World Court’

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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…

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CFLPP Monthly Seminar: “Should Judges Make Climate Change Law?”

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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…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: ‘Oil and water: The inherent incompatibility of international investment law with climate action’ – Dr Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, Essex Law School

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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…

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CEENRG Thursday seminars: ‘Climate Change, Fossil Fuels and Human Rights’

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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…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: ‘Implementing International Law: Capacity-Building, Coordination and Control’ – Margaret Young, University of Melbourne

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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…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: ‘Inter-agency Coordination and Capacity Building: Whose International Law?’ – Margaret Young, University of Melbourne

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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…

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CEENRG Thursday seminars: ‘The challenge of climate change in international and European law’

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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…

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