Graz Annual PhD Workshop on Climate Law and Litigation

ClimLaw: Graz 3rd Annual PhD Workshop on Climate Law and Litigation in cooperation with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Umweltbundesamt – German Environment Agency (UBA), the Association of Environmental Law Lecturers from African Universities (ASSELLAU) and the Development and Rule of Law Programme (DROP) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

The time has come, once again, for us to host the next ClimLaw: Graz Annual PhD Workshop on Climate Law and Litigation!

Dates: Thursday, 23 May 2024 – Friday, 24 May 2024

Times: 09:00 – 17:30 CET

Online via Zoom

Registration for the online event can be found here.

Speakers and presentations include:

• Prof. Benoit Mayer, Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK LAW), Hong Kong – “Environmental impact assessment as a tool for climate change mitigation”
• Assoc. Prof. Matjaz Nahtigal, Department of International Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia – “UN Sustainable Development Agenda and a Paris Climate Agreement: mutually exclusive or mutually reinforcing?”
• Prof. Hana Müllerová Müllerova, Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre for Climate Law and Sustainability Studies, Prague, Czech Republic – “Climate Justice and Human Rights of Children and Future Generations”
• Assoc. Prof Ebru Demir, Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey – “Conceptualising ‘Climate Vulnerability’ in Human Rights Law: Looking at the Climate Change Applications before the European Court of Human Rights”
• Assoc. Prof. Rita Simon, Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre for Climate Law and Sustainability Studies, Prague, Czech Republic – “Unleashing the climate argument in the European regulation (mitigating consumption)”
• Assoc. Prof. Monika Feigerlova Feigerlová, Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre for Climate Law and Sustainability Studies, Prague, Czech Republic – “The role of private international law in climate litigation”

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