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Professional Practice in International Climate Change Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

Sarah Mason-Case*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Extract

Over the last few years, two international organizations launched global networks to connect legal professionals specializing in law as it pertains to climate change. The first textbook on international climate change law was published during this time and a second is was released in 2018. Such developments no doubt reflect the growing prominence of the subject in public discourse and regulatory efforts. More subtly, they point to an emergent community of lawyers working with and generating international climate law as a matter of professional practice.

Type
New Voices in International Law: Paper Presentations
Copyright
Copyright © by The American Society of International Law 2019 

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Footnotes

I am grateful to Professor Jutta Brunnée for our discussions on these remarks.

References

1 International Bar Association, Climate Change Network, at https://www.ibanet.org/LPD/SEERIL/ClimateChangeNetwork.aspx; International Union for Conservation of Nature, Climate Change, at https://www.iucn.org/commissions/world-commission-environmental-law/our-work/specialist-groups/climate-change.

2 Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée & Lavanya Rajamani, International Climate Change Law (2017); Benoît Mayer, The International Law on Climate Change (2018).

3 Research involved interviews with nineteen lawyers who regularly work with international climate law; reviewing publicly available interviews, resumes and biographies; and analysis of extensive primary documents. Moreover, it benefitted from the author's experience at an intergovernmental organization and in the academe. A full methodology is appended to a longer paper underway for peer review.

4 Schachter, Oscar, Invisible College of International Lawyers, 72 Nw. Univ. L. Rev. 217, 217 (1977)Google Scholar.

5 See, e.g., Interpretation in International Law (Andrea Bianchi, Daniel Peat & Matthew Windsor eds., 2015); David Kennedy, A World of Struggle: How Power, Law, and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy (2016); Ian Johnstone, The Power of Deliberation (2011); International Law as a Profession (Jean d'Aspremont, Tarcisio Gazzini, André Nollkaemper & Wouter Werner eds., 2017).

6 Study Group of the International Law Commission, Report on the Fragmentation of International Law: Difficulties Arising from the Diversification and Expansion of International Law, UN Doc A/CN.4/L.682 (2006).

7 Peters, Anne, The Refinement of International Law: Fragmentation to Regime Interaction and Politicization, 15 Int'l J. Const. L. 671 (2016)Google Scholar.

8 See e.g., Jutta Brunnée & Stephen J. Toope, Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: An Interactional Account (2010); Anthea Roberts, Is International Law International? (2017); Fleur Johns, Non-legality in International Law: Unruly Law (2012); The Power of Legality: Practices of International Law and Their Politics (Nikolas M. Rajkovic, Tanja E. Aalberts & Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen eds., 2016).

9 Id.

10 See, e.g., Hilson, Chris, It's All About Climate Change, Stupid! Exploring the Relationship Between Environmental Law and Climate Law, 25 J. Envt'l L. 359 (2013)Google Scholar; Bodansky, Brunnée & Rajamani, supra note 2; The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law (Kevin R. Gray, Richard Tarasofsky & Cinnamon Carlarne eds., 2016).

11 See Krisch, Nico, The Many Fields of (German) International Law, in Comparative International Law 95 (Roberts, Anthea, Stephan, Paul B., Verdier, Pierre-Hugues & Versteeg, Mila eds., 2018)Google Scholar.

12 Vauchez, Antoine, Interstitial Power in Fields of Limited Statehood: Introducing a “Weak Field” Approach to the Study of Transnational Settings, 5 Int'l Pol. Sociology 340 (2011)Google Scholar.

13 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, May 9, 1992, S. Treaty Doc. No. 102-38 (1992) 1771 UNTS 107.