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Join us for our Thursday Network Morning from 11am!

We look forward to seeing you at our networking meeting tomorrow with Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger on 'Sword, Shield or Spoon? The Role of International Law in Sustainable Resources Management'. This is a sneak preview of the new guidelines developed in the International Law Assoc.


Professor Dr Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, DPhil (Oxon), MEM (Yale), BCL& LLB (McGill), BA Hons, FRSA is an expert jurist and scholar of law and governance on sustainable development, as senior Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. With over 22 books and 90 papers published, editor of a CUP Series on Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development, and founder/editorial board member of several law journals, she serves as Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Climate Law & Governance Initiative; Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL); and Full Professor of Law at the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED), University of Waterloo in Canada. She is also founding Fellow of the C-EENRG, Law Fellow and LLM Director of Studies of Lucy Cavendish College, and Affiliated Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL). A former General Counsel to the Ramsar Convention, Senior Legal Expert and Dept Head of the International Development Law Organization and Senior Legal Advisor to the UNFCCC CoP Presidency, she serves as Chair of the CBD Biodiversity Law & Governance Initiative, as Rapporteur of the International Law Association's Natural Resources Committee, also on the Trust for Sustainable Living and other charities. She received the Weeramantry International Justice Award in 2020, also the Justitia Regnorum Fundamentum Award and other honours for her legal scholarship and leadership on biodiversity, climate change and the rights of future generations.


Zoom details are: zoom.us/j/986908876

If you’d like to discuss your paper next week, please contact admin@conservation.cam.ac.uk

Date: 
Thursday, 18 June, 2020 - 11:00