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The call for submitting abstracts to the 2025 Degrowth Conference has been extended to 20th January 2025! (https://lnkd.in/e-pmi6ip) We encourage legal (and interdisciplinary) researchers to contribute to the session on 'Growth and Degrowth in EU law'. This session aims to contribute to the current broader reflection on the role of EU law in fostering economic growth and what could EU law do to address this issue. In particular: how EU law could be reshaped to address the challenges of our times (e.g. planetary boundaries, social needs, etc.). Examples of questions which could be addressed include: 👉 What are the potential legal obstacles and opportunities to integrate beyond-growth approaches (i.e. degrowth or post-growth approaches) in EU law? 👉 How to conceptualise beyond-growth in relation to EU law? 👉 What amendments to the treaties (i.e. TEU and TFEU) would be desirable and/or politically feasible? 👉 Does the current jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the EU include beyond growth-compatible elements or at least, elements that could provide the basis for future beyond-growth compatible case law? 👉 To what extent do recent policies such as the European Green Deal include beyond-growth compatible elements? The full description of the session is here: https://lnkd.in/e7uUcYEs We look forward to it!

About a month back, I had the opportunity to attend an event by The Dickson Poon School of Law's Centre for European Law on various topics concerning the Court of Justice of the EU, and was able to draw parallels to the recent Kadi Litigation event I attended. The first lecture, delivered by Dr Isidora Maletić, was titled the "EU Green Challenge," and focused on how legislation tackles the various environmental problems which currently exist, alongside the implications of said legislation. For instance, Regulation 2020/852 focuses on "sustainable development," but there is still ambiguity as to what classifies as "sustainable." Like the Kadi case, both situations highlighted how ambiguity and lack of clarity can result in disadvantageous situations. The second lecture, delivered by Dr Andi Hoxhaj OBE, was titled the "Western Balkans Quest for EU Membership." This lecture focused on the rule of law and the challenges facing Balkan countries when they try to gain EU membership. Once again, like Kadi, both situations highlight how bureaucracy and lengthy court proceedings can deliver significant damage over time. For Kadi, it was the travel ban/freezing of his assets, and for many Balkan countries, it's the constant limbo and sacrifice of sovereignty to appease the EU. The final lecture, delivered by Christopher Vajda KC, was titled "Arbitration and the EU." Mr Vajda mentioned how the Kadi case highlighted, for the first time, that some aspects of EU law are so supreme, that they are above international law – in this case, Mr Kadi's fundamental rights. Overall, when reflecting upon these lectures, it was fascinating to see how each one coincided with the other, and how many of the fundamental principles are in fact similar to one-another in the broader context of legislation and litigation.

FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School announces the opening of the selection process for two positions of Researcher of the FGV Centre for Global Law (FGV CPDG), coordinated by Prof. Dr. Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida.    FGV CPDG has been launched by FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School in April 2023, with the purpose of conducting research and studies on Global Law and Governance, taking into consideration the context and the specific demands of the Global South. It contemplates transnational activities and structural links with academic institutions in Brazil and worldwide to share knowledge and develop joint endeavours and partnership.    The headline project of the FGV Centre for Global Law is the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on EU-LA Global Challenges, funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme, which represents the highest academic degree awarded by the European Union.   Selected candidates will work on research related to the four main research areas of the Centre: (A) Global Regulation, (B) Global Litigation, (C) Climate Change and Forests, and (D) Human Rights and Democracy.  - The Deadline for submission is April 29. For futher information: https://lnkd.in/dVsYUCHT https://lnkd.in/dH_ZFkcG

Curious about the role of international law in environmental impacts? David Attanasio will take part in a panel discussion at the International Law Weekend 2024. The speakers explore how international law regulates industrial activities affecting human rights and the environment.

FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School announces the opening of the selection process for two positions of Researcher of the FGV Centre for Global Law (FGV CPDG), coordinated by Prof. Dr. Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida.    FGV CPDG has been launched by FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School in April 2023, with the purpose of conducting research and studies on Global Law and Governance, taking into consideration the context and the specific demands of the Global South. It contemplates transnational activities and structural links with academic institutions in Brazil and worldwide to share knowledge and develop joint endeavours and partnership.    The headline project of the FGV Centre for Global Law is the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on EU-LA Global Challenges, funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme, which represents the highest academic degree awarded by the European Union.   Selected candidates will work on research related to the four main research areas of the Centre: (A) Global Regulation, (B) Global Litigation, (C) Climate Change and Forests, and (D) Human Rights and Democracy.  - The Deadline for submission is April 29. For futher information: https://lnkd.in/dVsYUCHT https://lnkd.in/dH_ZFkcG

I am delighted to see my review of Godwin Dzah's Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies is now available at https://lnkd.in/dN_CMvHb. Not only was this volume a pleasure to read over the summer, I found valuable insights on the potential of African cosmologies in the evolution of international environmental law, particularly in ways that address the demands of environmental justice as understood by those who experience or are at risk of harms caused in pursuit of a narrow notion of sustainable development. The book resonates with my own work and will undoubtedly be of interest to scholars working towards the decolonisation of international environmental law.

📢 Save the Date: Human Rights & International Law Webinar Join us for a webinar, "Human Rights in the Context of Contemporary International Law and Transdisciplinarity: A Book Discussion", hosted by Prof. Cristina Elena Popa Tache. 📖 Featured Books: The Dynamism of International Public Contemporary and Transdisciplinary (2023) Le droit international en transition (2024) These works explore the evolving dynamics of public international law, focusing on its intersection with contemporary social and technological changes. Learn how transdisciplinary approaches can shape the future of international law. 👤 About the Speaker: Prof. Cristina Elena Popa Tache is a renowned expert in public international law with an exceptional academic and editorial career, holding positions at ESIL IG, CIRET Paris, and Springer Nature. 📅 Don’t miss this thought-provoking event! Secure your spot today—register now to receive the event link: https://bit.ly/4gtB6Ud. (This webinar is part of the Human Rights Justification: Empirical Webinar Series, under the Horizon Europe HRJust project, which examines how states invoke human rights to justify legislative and political decisions in areas such as climate change, migration, and COVID-19.)

Curious about the role of international law in managing environmental impact? I am thrilled to participate in a panel discussion at International Law Weekend 2024 later this week. We will explore how international law regulates industrial activities affecting human rights and the environment.

Dr. Rosemary Mwanza, Research Fellow at the Department of Law, Stockholm University provides the last book review of Godwin Dzah book, Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies available here https://lnkd.in/e-SeRkZk In her introduction, Dr. Mwanza notes that: Since its popularisation at the Stockholm Conference in 1972 and in the Brundtland Commission Report of 1987, as development that meets the needs of current generations without compromising future generations’ ability to meet theirs, sustainable development has become a cornerstone principle of international environmental law. Its popularity has grown in tandem with criticisms levelled against it. Scholars point out that the concept’s failure to commit to an overriding objective among the three competing pillars has made economic development its default core objective. Due to its open-textured nature, sustainable development has long been a popular surface discourse that lends linguistic cover for extractive neoliberal development, deceptively passing off as true sustainability. As a result, the concept has succeeded, not in seamlessly balancing its three constitutive pillars as initially conceived, but in providing cover for socially and ecologically unsustainable development demonstrated by the continued devastation of nature and negative social outcomes for peoples, especially those of the Global South. These critiques foreshadow the book under review. In Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies, Dzah’s objective is to deconstruct the history, politics and law of sustainable development under international law. Drawing on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), the author’s main argument is that sustainable development as currently conceptualised and implemented under international environmental law is defective and should be reconfigured to become a truly ecological law norm. The contemplated reconfiguration can be achieved by drawing on the legal value of African eco-cosmologies as a source of a countervailing logic and praxis to displace the Eurocentric and neoliberal logic that has curtailed its ability to advance human and ecological wellbeing. To read more, follow this link. https://lnkd.in/gFwye9se

Last Day for application: FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School announces the opening of the selection process for two positions of Researcher of the FGV Centre for Global Law (FGV CPDG), coordinated by Prof. Dr. Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida. FGV CPDG has been launched by FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School in April 2023, with the purpose of conducting research and studies on Global Law and Governance, taking into consideration the context and the specific demands of the Global South. It contemplates transnational activities and structural links with academic institutions in Brazil and worldwide to share knowledge and develop joint endeavours and partnership. The headline project of the FGV Centre for Global Law is the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on EU-LA Global Challenges, funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme, which represents the highest academic degree awarded by the European Union. Selected candidates will work on research related to the four main research areas of the Centre: (A) Global Regulation, (B) Global Litigation, (C) Climate Change and Forests, and (D) Human Rights and Democracy. - The Deadline for submission is April 29. For futher information: https://lnkd.in/dVsYUCHT https://lnkd.in/dH_ZFkcG