Law

Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Climate Change and Human Rights Law’

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Speaker: Professor Annalisa Savaresi (University of Eastern Finland and University of Stirling) The Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis explores the vital role of legal systems in tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time. This series brings together top experts in law and climate action to…

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Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Climate Change and Comparative Law’

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Speaker: Dr Ivano Alogna (British Institute for International and Comparative Law) The Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis explores the vital role of legal systems in tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time. This series brings together top experts in law and climate action to discuss how…

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Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Climate Change and AI Law’

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Speaker: Giulia Trojano (Hausfeld) The Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis explores the vital role of legal systems in tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time. This series brings together top experts in law and climate action to discuss how climate change interacts with specific areas of law…

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Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Climate Change and Land Law’

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Speaker: Dr Rhiannon Ogden-Jones (University of Cambridge) The Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis explores the vital role of legal systems in tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time. This series brings together top experts in law and climate action to discuss how climate change interacts…

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Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Change and Tort Law’

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Speaker: Lord Philip Sales (United Kingdom Supreme Court) The Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis explores the vital role of legal systems in tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time. This series brings together top experts in law and climate action to discuss how climate change interacts…

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Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Climate Change Attribution science: Can It Establish Causation in Court?’

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Speaker: Dr Rupert Stuart-Smith (Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow in Climate Science and the Law at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, University of Oxford) Two decades of attribution research have shed light on the impacts of climate change occurring worldwide. The first wave of attribution research…

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Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Civil Law Torts and Climate Change’

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Speaker: Elbert de Jong (Full Professor of Private Law at Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Climate change is rapidly entering the domain of tort law. This development is driven by regulation and litigation, advances in climate science, and the increasingly tangible impacts of climate change on interests protected by…

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Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Climate Change and the Rule of Law’

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Speakers: Chief Justice Brian Preston (Land and Environment Court, New South Wales), Mr Justice Richard Humphreys (Planning and Environment Court, Ireland), Mr Justice Tim Mould (Planning Court, England and Wales), Sir Keith Lindblom (Court of Appeal, England and Wales; UKELA), Nina Pindham (Cornerstone Barristers; UKELA)…

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CEENRG Seminars: ‘Climate Change before National Courts: a Promising Route?’

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Speaker: Professor Andreas Paulus (Professor, Chair of Public and International Law, University of Göttingen) The Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) is hosting a seminar series throughout the 2026-27 academic year. Many seminars take place as hybrid meetings (in person…

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CEENRG Seminars: ‘Climate Incentives: the Themis Mechanism’

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Speaker: Professor Carl Edward Rasmussen (Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) Climate change is essentially a problem of managing our shared atmospheric resource. In this talk I start by broadly examining the properties which mechanisms must have to be successful. This…

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