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Interview with Marja Lehto

Former International Law Commission Special Rapporteur on the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2023

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Abstract

Dr Marja Lehto is Ambassador for International Legal Affairs at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, and Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki. She was a member of the United Nations (UN) International Law Commission (ILC) and served as the Special Rapporteur for the topic “Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts” from 2017 to 2022. Dr Lehto is also a member of the Council of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law since 2019. She has formerly served, inter alia, as Legal Adviser to the Finnish UN Mission in New York (1995–2000), as Head of the Unit for Public International Law (2000–09), and as Finland's Ambassador to Luxembourg (2009–14). For most of her career, she has worked on issues related to international peace and security, including international criminal justice and international humanitarian law (IHL), and she has published on a broad range of international legal questions related to the law of the sea, international environmental law (IEL), State succession, use of force, armed conflicts, terrorism and cyber security.

Keywords

environmentInternational Law Commissioninternational humanitarian lawinternational environmental lawinternational human rights lawAdditional Protocol IUnited Nations
Type
Interview
Information
International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 105 , Issue 924: Protecting the Environment in Armed Conflict , December 2023 , pp. 1169 - 1179
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the ICRC

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Footnotes

Interview conducted by Bruno Demeyere, Editor-in-Chief of the Review.

The advice, opinions and statements contained in this article are those of the author/s and do not necessarily reflect the views of the ICRC. The ICRC does not necessarily represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other information provided in this article.

References

1 UNEP, Protecting the Environment during Armed Conflict: An Inventory and Analysis of International Law, 2009, available at: https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/7813.

2 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Recommendation 2246, 25 January 2023.