Editors
Caroline Foster
Caroline Foster is a professor of international law at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand and Director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law. She is the author of two monographs: Global Regulatory Standards in Environmental and Health Disputes: Regulatory Coherence, Due Regard and Due Diligence (Oxford University Press 2021) and Science and the Precautionary Principle in International Courts and Tribunals: Expert Evidence, Burden of Proof and Finality (Cambridge University Press 2011). Her articles appear in numerous international journals. She regularly collaborates internationally and serves on the editorial advisory boards of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law and the New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law.
Professor Foster was formerly a legal and policy advisor at the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She graduated from the Andrés Bello Chilean Diplomatic Academy as a foreign diplomat and worked with the Ministry in the 1990s, where she was involved in various UN legal issues and the work of the International Law Commission. On the environmental side she advised on the negotiations for the Kyoto Protocol and the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol on the safe transfer and handling of living modified organisms. She also served as a New Zealand representative at international negotiations in a number of different areas of international law, including air services and the rights of indigenous peoples, and worked at the New Zealand High Commission in London.
Professor Foster took her LLM and PhD from the University of Cambridge and has visited the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law in Cambridge a number of times as a visiting fellow. She has also worked in the NGO sector in the UK and carried out research for the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Her work spans issues of environment, health, trade, human rights and wider areas, including the law of the sea and Antarctica. Recent publications include ‘Dynamics in the Relationship between International and Domestic Climate Change Law and Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand’, in An Hertogen and Anna Hood (eds) International Law in Aotearoa New Zealand (Thomson Reuters 2021).
Christina Voigt
Christina Voigt is a full professor of law at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Norway; Chair of the IUCN World Commission of Environmental Law; and Member of the Council of the IUCN.
Professor Christina Voigt is an expert in international environmental law. She works on legal issues of climate change, biodiversity conservation, environmental multilateralism and sustainability. She is the author of numerous academic articles, a monograph and several edited volumes, including International Judicial Practice on the Environment: Questions of Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press 2019), Courts and the Environment (with Z Makuch, Edward Elgar 2018), Research Handbook on REDD+ and International Law (Edward Elgar 2016) and Rule of Law for Nature (Cambridge University Press 2013). In 2009, she was awarded the inaugural Junior Scholarship Prize of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.
From 2009 to 2019, she also worked for the Norwegian government as lead negotiator on REDD+ (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries) and as principal legal adviser in the UN climate negotiations, negotiating, inter alia, the Paris Agreement (2015) and the Rulebook for the Paris Agreement (2018). In 2017 and 2018, she was co-facilitator for the negotiations on the rules for the Paris Agreement’s implementation and compliance committee. In June 2020, she was elected by the first Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement as member and inaugural co-chair of that committee and will serve in this capacity until 2024.
From 2013 until 2023, she was on the Steering Committee of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order (Pluricourts) Center of Excellence, where she was project lead for non-compliance mechanisms. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, RECIEL, Climate Law, Chinese Journal of Environmental Law, Environmental Policy and Law, Resource Management Theory & Practice and Nordic Journal of International Law and works as a legal consultant for UNEP, UNDP, OECD, FAO and the Council of Europe. She was a member of the International Expert Drafting Panel on the legal definition of ‘ecocide’ (2002–2021) and is a member of the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law (PC-ENV).
Chapter Authors
Justine Bendel
Justine Bendel is a lecturer at the University of Leeds. She was a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie fellow at the University of Copenhagen from 2022 to 2024. Her project titled INTERFOR focused on the implementation of international and regional law protecting forests. Prior to this, she was a lecturer at the University of Exeter. She is the author of a monograph Litigating the Environment: Process and Procedure before International Courts and Tribunals (Elgar, 2023) and the co-editor of Public Interest Litigation in International Law (Routledge, 2023). She holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, obtained in 2017, as well as a Master and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Geneva. She has also worked as a research intern at the UN Office of Legal Affairs, Codification Division, and at the environmental NGO ClientEarth.
Leonardo Borlini
Leonardo Borlini is a professor of international law at the legal department of Bocconi University and a faculty member of the PhD in Legal Studies. He is a visiting professor at the School of Transnational Law at Peking University at the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law. Apart from his academic appointments, he has served the IMF as a technical assistance specialist and authored and co-authored reports for the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. He is also an attorney at law at the Milan Bar.
Jonathan Brosseau
Jonathan Brosseau is a PhD/DCL candidate (full scholarship) at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and McGill University. His thesis is on the civil procedure rules shaping State immunity disputes. Jonathan is a graduate from the BCL/LLB honours programme at McGill University (Gualtieri-Doran and Cook Awards) and the LLM programme at the University of Cambridge (Volterra Fietta and Nappert Prizes). A member of the Quebec Bar, he has practised at the global law firm Freshfields, the International Court of Justice, the United Nations and Canada’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jonathan has authored or co-authored more than a dozen scholarly publications on international law.
Mary Jude Cantorias-Marvel
Cantorias-Marvel received her LLM in dispute resolution with a Gibson Rankin scholarship from the University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia; her LLB from Arellano University School of Law; and her BSc in child development from the University of the Philippines. She has served as a mediator in the Better Business Bureau in New York City and as a research associate in the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution in Teachers College, Columbia University, for practical training in her Masters programme. She has authored several articles on arbitration, and has presented at international conferences in the US, Canada and China. She is admitted to the Philippine Bar.
Kathleen Claussen
Kathleen Claussen is a professor of law at the University of Miami. She has authored more than forty articles and essays concerning trade, investment and international dispute settlement, among other related research areas. She has also served as counsel or arbitrator in over two dozen international disputes. Among other leadership roles, she has served on the Executive Council and Executive Committee of the American Society of International Law and is a co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Economic Law. Prior to joining the academy, Professor Claussen was Associate General Counsel at the Office of the US Trade Representative. Earlier in her career, she was Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, covering disputes between countries and investment law arbitration. She is a graduate of the Yale Law School, Queen’s University Belfast, where she was a Mitchell scholar, and of Indiana University, where she was a Wells scholar.
Carlos A. Cruz Carrillo
Carlos A. Cruz Carrillo is a PhD researcher/SNSF DocCH fellow at the University of Basel. He holds an LLM in international law from the Graduate Institute of Geneva (IHEID) and an LLB from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Carlos has professional experience in international law from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) and as an international consultant. His research and professional interests comprise ocean affairs, climate change, watercourses, energy transition, human rights, cultural heritage law and international dispute settlement.
Rukmini Das
Rukmini Das has a PhD (summa cum laude) in public international law from the University of Geneva. She is a guest lecturer at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and WBNUJS, Kolkata. Her research interests include international dispute settlement, international environmental law, the law of evidence and general public international law. Rukmini has worked as a researcher at the University of Geneva, as a consultant at the United Nations and as a research fellow in an Indian legal policy organisation advising the Government of India. She is qualified as an advocate in India and as a solicitor in England and Wales.
Elena Evangelidis
Elena Evangelidis is a PhD candidate at the European University Institute. She holds an LLM in public international law from Leiden University and an LLB in Scots law from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Her doctoral research explores the role of cities in transnational biodiversity law.
Alice Fabris
Dr Alice Lopes Fabris is a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Fellow at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Her project focusses on cultural rights of Indigenous Peoples and marron communities affected by environmental degradation in Brazil and Colombia. In 2023, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UMR 7206 Eco-Anthropologie CNRS/MNHN/Université Paris-Cité on a project on Anthropocene and the ecological dimension of environmental norms. She obtained in 2021 a PhD in Law from ENS Paris-Saclay (full scholarship from CAPES-Brazil) and her thesis on ‘la notion de crime contre le patrimoine culturel en droit international’ [the notion of crimes against cultural heritage in international law] received the Prix Joinet 2022 – justice pénale internationale. She holds a Bachelor of Laws at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil).
Ambroise Fahrner
Ambroise Fahrner is pursuing a doctoral thesis in the field of international monetary law at Paris Nanterre University under the supervision of Professor Mathias Forteau, and at the Humboldt University in Berlin under the supervision of Professor Georg Nolte. Ambroise has taught public international law and international economic law in several French universities. His research interests include international and regional monetary law, international economic law and legal theory.
Malgosia Fitzmaurice
Malgosia Fitzmaurice holds a chair of public international law at the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London. In 2019 she was elected an associate member of the Institut de Droit International; and in 2021 she was awarded the Doctorate Honoris Causa of the University of Neuchâtel. She specialises in international environmental law, the law of treaties and indigenous peoples. She publishes widely on these subjects. She has delivered a lecture on the international protection of the environment at the Hague Academy of International Law. Professor Fitzmaurice has been invited as a visiting professor to various universities at which she has also lectured, including Berkeley Law School, the University of Kobe and Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I). She is Editor-in-Chief of the International Community Law Review Journal and of a book series published by Brill Nijhoff – Queen Mary Studies in International Law.
Jean-Pierre Gauci
Jean-Pierre Gauci is an Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in public international law and Director of Teaching and Training at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. In this role, among other things, Jean-Pierre leads BIICL’s work in the fields of migration, trafficking and labour rights. Jean-Pierre is also a co-founder and co-director of the People for Change Foundation, a human rights think-tank based in Malta, and is a visiting lecturer in international migration law and ocean governance at the University of Malta. Jean-Pierre holds a PhD in law from Kings College London focused on trafficking-based asylum claims, and a Doctor of Laws from the University of Malta.
Noemi Magugliani
Noemi Magugliani is a lecturer in law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, and co-lead of de:border // migration justice collective. They are also a senior legal advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and a research fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Their research focuses on border violence, legal in/justice, transfeminism, and queer theory. Noemi holds a PhD in Law from the University of Galway, and an LLM in International Human Rights Law and Policy from University College Cork. Prior to joining Kent Law School, Noemi lectured at the University of Galway, and held positions at the Council of Europe and the International Organisation for Migration.
Laura Pineschi
Laura Pineschi is a full professor of international law at the Department of Law, Politics and International Studies (Department of Excellence 2023–2027) of the University of Parma (Italy). She has authored two monographs and edited various volumes. Results of her research activity with regard to international environmental law, peacekeeping operations, human rights and cultural heritage have also been published in academic journals or book chapters. She was the director of the Directed Studies of the Hague Academy of International Law (English speaking section) in 2015. At the University of Parma, she served as Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2009 to 2012 and as Director of the Center for Studies in European and International Affairs (CSEIA) from 2016 to 2023.
Alexander Solntsev
Alexander Solntsev is an associate professor and the Deputy Head of the Department of International Law, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN). He has studied at RUDN and at the University of Amsterdam. He has authored more than 700 works and was co-initiator of the project of publication of international environmental agreements with comments in the Russian language. He is a member of several international organisations, including the European Society of International Law, European Environmental Law Forum and World Commission on Environmental Law of the IUCN. Alexander took part in the preparation of Russia’s Voluntary National Review on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Andreas von Staden
Andreas von Staden is Excellence Strategy Manager and Deputy Team Head in the strategy department at Universität Hamburg. He previously served as assistant professor of political science, especially global governance, and as principal investigator of the research project “On the Causal (In)Significance of Legal Status: Assessing and Explaining Compliance with the ‘Views’ of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies” in the university’s department of social sciences, and as acting professor of international relations and law at Universität Münster. Andreas earned his PhD from Princeton University with an award-winning dissertation subsequently published as Strategies of Compliance with the European Court of Human Rights: Rational Choice within Normative Constraints (2018) and holds MA degrees from Princeton University, Yale University, and Universität Hamburg.
Yusra Suedi
Yusra Suedi is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Manchester, where her research is focused on international dispute settlement, climate/environmental law and human rights. She holds a doctorate in Public International Law from the University of Geneva for her manuscript entitled The Individual in the Law and Practice of the International Court of Justice (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press). Yusra has worked for the United Nations Office in Geneva, the International Law Commission, the Institut Du Droit International, the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal and the International Court of Justice. She has held teaching and research positions at the London School of Economics (LSE) Law School and King’s College London, UK. She has assisted counsel acting for governments and organisations before the International Court of Justice and has published in journals such as The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals and the Leiden Journal of International Law.
Jin Sun
Jin Sun is an assistant professor of sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research received funding from the Stanton Foundation, the European Research Council and the Swiss Network for International Studies. His articles have been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Global Governance, and other peer-reviewed journals and books. His research focuses on law and global governance with regard to sanctions, environment and climate change, digitalisation and multilateral finance. He has been admitted to the Chinese Bar in Beijing and has directed studies at the Hague Academy of International Law. He obtained LLM and PhD degrees, respectively, from Harvard University and the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
Maria Antonia Tigre
Maria Antonia Tigre is the Director of Global Climate Change Litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, where she maintains the world’s most comprehensive database on climate change litigation – the Climate Case Chart. Dr Tigre serves as the Deputy Director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment, where she works with scholars and practitioners in the region to study the interface between human rights and the environment. In addition, Dr. Tigre is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. Dr Tigre has an JD from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro Brazil and a double LLM and an SJD from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.
Samuel White
Samuel White is a senior lecturer in law at the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland. He was awarded an LLB (Hons) and a PhD by the University of Dundee, where his doctoral research, funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, examined the impact of incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights on human rights protection in the UK. He currently leads a Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded project studying the use of human rights treaties in the decision-making of Scottish courts.
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