Seminar and Roundtable Series

Each year, we organise a series of guest seminars and roundtables that brings to Strathclyde colleagues who share with us their unique perspective on topical global environmental law and governance issues. The seminars and roundtable are usually held in term time and are open to students and to the general public. Some of the seminars are recorded and can be viewed on our Youtube channel. Please click here for information about the 2021-22 full SCELG seminar series.

Smoke stacks emmitting carbon pollution into the sky causing climate change

Climate Impact Assessment for Fossil Fuel Projects in the Era of Energy Transition

Friday 22 April

Hammer, gavel, justice, 3d render

Environmental Litigation before the ICJ: How effective can it be?

Date TBC

View of the savannah of Samburu Park in central Kenya with a flock of elephants in the background

Strategic Climate Change Litigation in Africa

Tuesday 22 February

Sandalwood forest at Marayoor, near Munnar, Kerala, India

Who will steward our forests? Conservation and forests rights in India.

Friday 26 November

Group of demonstrators on road, young people from different culture and race fight for climate change - Global warming and enviroment concept - Focus on banners

Who’s Missing from the Climate Movement? The Untold Stories of Young Climate Leaders in the Global South

Thursday 28 October

Roundtable on "Perspectives on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction". One Ocean Hub, 9 December 2019.

"Brexit and the Rise of Incoherency?". Dr Mary Dobbs, 2 October 2019.

"Blockchain Technology for Implementation of the Paris Agreement". Alastair Marke, 24 April 2019.

"Resisting Regulation of Property in the Context of Sustainability". Dr Jill Robbie, 27 February 2019.

Book launch "Natural Resources and Human Rights”. Prof. Jeremie Gilbert, 11 January 2019.

"Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife and Natural Resources". Prof Randall Abate, 04 December 2018.

"COP24 and the IPCC 1.5 Special Report: The Paris Rulebook Negotiations in the Wake of the Final Climate Science Warning". Prof Michael Mehling, 29 November 2018.

"The UK Radioactive Waste Legacy - Fantastic Voyage or Mission Impossible?". Prof Campbell Gemmell, 14 November 2018.

"Humans, Animals and the International Legal Order: Towards an Integrated Perspective on Bioethics". Prof Michael Bowman, 07 November 2018.

"Technologies of Common Concern". Prof Neil Craik, 31 October 2018.

An Inter-disciplinary Roundtable on Fair and Equitable Benefit-sharing and Water Law. 24 April 2018.

"Projecting Transboundary Conservation into the Future: the Impact of Law and Governance in Fulfilling Environment’s Role in Peace Building". Dr Clara Bocchino, 21 February 2018.

Roundtable on Agriculture after Brexit: Trade, Environment and Food Security implications. 28 November 2017.

"Out of sight, out of mind? Law and social sciences in the safe and efficient use of the subsurface". Professor Mike Stephenson, 1 November 2017.

"Environmental Litigation in the Anthropocene – friend or foe to delivering the Sustainable Development Goals?". Susan Shaw, 25 October 2017.

"Becoming an International Lawyer in the Environmental Field". Dr Justine Bendel, 18 October 2017.

Workshop on 'Hidden Water in Latin America: Exploring The Guarani Aquifer System'. 28 March 2017.

Roundtable on Environmental Crime and Green Criminology. 15 March 2017.

"Access and Benefit Sharing: Implementing the Nagoya Protocol in the UK". Katie Beckett, 21 February 2017.

"Commercial pressures and legal rights: 'Land grabbing', human rights and international investment law". Dr Lorenzo Cotula, 7 February 2017.

Roundtable on UN Biodiversity Conference of the Parties. 31 January 2017.

"When rights embrace responsibilities: biocultural rights and the conservation of the environment". Dr Giulia Sajeva, 9 November 2016.

"Exploring the borderlands: the role of individual in International Cultural Law". Professor Valentina Vadi, 12 October 2016

"International agreements over transboundary aquifers. What's really important?".  Shaminder Puri, 17 February 2016.

"UNFCC negotiation on adaptation and its impact on the Artic regime". Professor Mar Campins Eritja, 20 February 2016.

""Brexit" and the Environment". Professor Colin T. Reid. 2 December 2015

"Talking about Animal Rights- Moral claims of non-human animals and their legal preconditions" Philipp Gisbertz. 25 November 2015

"Deliberative governance of transboundary rivers in the Ganges-Brahmaputra problemshed; a question of water justice" Paula Hanasz. 26 October 2015

"Hydrofracturing: a U.S. perspective" Dean Leroy (Lee) Paddock and Robert M. Kalin. 13 August 2015

"Human Rights and the environment" Stefania Negri. 3 June 2015

"Entry into force of the United Nations Watercourses Convention: why should it matter?" Dr. Salman M. A. Salman. 22 May 2015

"UNFCC negotiations and the road to Paris" Professor Kati Kulovesi. 22 April 2015

"To tell and reinvent a city: Taranto between development and venoms" Sergio Messina. 18 March 2015

"Artic actors in International Law: the usual suspects?" Elizabeth Kirk. 25 February 2015

"Outcome of the Lima Climate Talks and the road to Paris: a focus on intended nationally determined contributions" Melissa Low. 21 January 2015

"Rare Earth: a rare dispute?" Leon Gerber, Francesco Sindico and Stephanie Switzer. 3 December 2014

"The International Law of Payment for Ecosystem Services" Juan Carlos Sanchez. 26 November 2014

"A pluralist-empirical model of Chinese renewable energy regulation: implications for industry scale-up, environmental and economic modernisation objetives" Steven Geroe. 19 November 2014

"The Common Law of surface activity: general principle and current problems" Barry Barton. 6 May 2014

"UN post-2015 development framework: issues of equity, inclusivity and sustainability" Hilary Homans. 19 March 2014

"Land "grabbing" or land "rush"?" Thierry Berger. 5 March 2014

"Climate justice" Tahseen Jafry. 12 February 2014

"Is a comprehensive global framework of adjudicatory fora the means to enhanced global environmental protetion?" Tinashe Masvimbo Madebwe. 17 December 2013

"Carbon offsets: markets, law and governance" Christopher Arup. 30 October 2013

"Shaping India's climate change agenda: governance, negotiation and climate activism" Nanda Kumar Janardhanan. 9 October 2013

"The Nagoya Proocol: the obligation to share benefits from the utilization of generic resources" Mireia Martinez Barrabes. 19 September 2013

"Between twilight and Renaissance- changing prospects for the carbon market?" Michael Mehling. 9 September 2013

"Mineral waters in Brazil- regulatory framework and comparative legal perspective relating to water resource management" Ana Lucia Gesicki. 25 June 2013