Title: Obligations of States in relation to Climate Change

Time: 9:00-10:30 22 October 2024（10月22日上午9:00-10:30）

Venue: Main Building E2004（主楼E1004）

Speaker: Professor Volker Roeben

Abstract:The talk explores the obligations of States in relation to climate change. It discusses the recent Advisory Opinion of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and what can be expected from the International Court of Justice that will deliver its own advisory opinion later this year. The talk will conclude that these obligations are being strengthened.

Volker Roeben is Professor of International Law and Dean at Durham Law School. He is also a visiting professor at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, a docent at the University of Turku, and an associate at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy of the University of Dundee. Formerly, Volker previously was senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative law and Public International Law, and a professor at Swansea University and the University of Dundee. He has held visiting posts at the universities of Chicago, Minnesota and West Virginia, and served as legal adviser at the Energy Charter Secretariat. He holds degrees from the universities of Kiel, Heidelberg, and Berkeley and from the College of Europe Bruges.