European and International Environmental Law

07/05/2024

KEYNOTE LECTURE:
We are extremely happy to welcome Christine Bakker back to Siena next 17 May for a lecture on EU Law and . 🇪🇺🌱

05/02/2024

The staff of the Jean Monnet Module in European and International Environmental Law is profoundly saddened by the loss of Prof Francesco Francioni, a pioneer of international environmental law and one of its most authoritative scholar.

You can read a short message remembering his life and career on the website of Università degli Studi di Siena ▶ https://www.unisi.it/notizie/cordoglio-scomparsa-francioni.

Domenica, 4 Febbraio, 2024 - 12:45 Cordoglio all’Università di Siena per la scomparsa, avvenuta venerdì 2 febbraio, del Professor Francesco Francioni, già ordinario di Diritto internazionale e Professore Emerito. Francioni aveva ricoperto numerosi incarichi accademici, fra cui la carica di Pro-...

29/11/2023

📯 And that is a wrap (almost)! On 27-28 November, we hosted the final event of the module at the Department of Law of the Università degli Studi di Siena. A list of leading scholars and practitioners joined us to discuss current issues of International Environmental Law 🌱👩‍⚖️.

🆕 Even if the window of implementation of the EIEL Module is now officially closed, this is not yet the end of the road! We are pleased to announce that over the coming months the contributions we received from our speakers will be published as part of the prestigious Italian Yearbook of International Law 🗞️.

This will also represent the main written output of our module, and we will keep you informed on our channels - make sure you continue visiting our website and social media accounts ▶ http://www.eieljeanmonnet.org

30/09/2023

We would like to thank Alessandro Monti, Assistant Professor at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen, for joining our last yesterday.

His brilliant presentation on how mutual supportiveness between climate and trade law can help promote renewable energy can be watched again here ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/live/5HXk2rQt6kM?feature=shared.

29/09/2023

📣 HAPPENING TODAY: at 14:30 CEST, we will kick off a new with Alessandro Monti, Assistant Professor at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen to discuss how climate and trade law can help promote renewable energy.

You can watch it here ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HXk2rQt6kM.

For the second EIEL webinar of the 2022/2023 academic year, we welcome Dr Alessandro Monti, Assistant Professor in Sustainability and Energy Law at the Unive...

26/09/2023

📣 REMINDER: This upcoming Friday (29/09) we will host Alessandro Monti from the Faculty of Law of Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen on our new !

Alessandro will discuss his new book on promoting renewable energy through climate and trade law.

To learn more ▶ https://eieljeanmonnet.org/2023/09/04/new-eiel-webinar-with-alessandro-monti-to-discuss-renewable-energy-climate-change-and-trade-law/.
To find more information about Alessandro's book ▶ https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/promoting-renewable-energy-9781803920771.html.

The EIEL Jean Monnet staff is proud to announce a new EIEL webinar, which will focus on how the interaction of climate change and trade law can promote the uptake of renewable energy. Our guest wil…

04/05/2023

📣 EIEL EVENT: On 12 and 15 May, Prof Christine Bakker (British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna) returns to the EIEL Jean Monnet module for two keynote lectures on international and European climate change law.

Read more ▶️ https://eieljeanmonnet.org/2023/05/04/christine-bakker-to-deliver-two-new-eiel-keynote-lectures-on-international-and-european-climate-change-law/.

29/03/2023

Not only the request to the International Court of Justice: today the European Court of Human Rights heard its first two lawsuits, which accuse 🇨🇭 and 🇫🇷 of violating the human rights of the applicants by not doing enough to cut GHG emissions▶️ https://climatechangenews.com/2023/03/29/european-court-hears-landmark-lawsuits-that-could-shape-climate-policy/.

The European Court of Human Rights heard two landmark lawsuits that could influence climate change emissions cuts across the world.

29/03/2023

Today was an important day for international environmental law 🌱⚖️. The adopted by consensus the resolution put forward by Vanuatu 🇻🇺 seeking an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legal obligations of States to address : https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/03/1135142.

To read more about the background of the "Vanuatu ICJ Initiative", see https://climatechangenews.com/2022/11/30/vanuatu-publishes-draft-resolution-seeking-climate-justice-at-un-court/.

The UN General Assembly will seek the opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on countries’ obligations to address climate change, following the adoption by consensus of a resolution on Wednesday.

17/02/2023

On 24 March, our coordinator Riccardo Pavoni will attend the conference 'Human rights at sea and the challenges of the ecological and digital transition', which is hosted by Universidade da Coruña and supported by the European Society of International Law.

The conference is highly relevant to many of the themes of the EIEL Jean Monnet Module, and Riccardo will deliver a presentation on 'Underwater cultural heritage and '.

To learn more, visit https://esil-sedi.eu/esil-supported-conference-on-human-rights-at-sea-and-the-challenges-of-the-ecological-and-digital-transition-university-of-a-coruna/.