XI Strathclyde Postgraduate Colloquium on Environmental Law and Governance
Time: Thursday, 15 June 2023, 10:00-16:30 UK time
Venue: Room CW404 a & b, Cathedral Wing (199, Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0QU)
The colloquium will be held in a hybrid format. Speakers and attendants that will participate online will be sent a zoom link ahead of the event.
Registration is compulsory! Please register here.
Draft Programme
Panel 1 (9:00-10:30am):
Global environmental law in a climate changed world (Chair: Linda Mensah)
- Protection and Restoration of Carbon Sinks through a Socio-Ecological Perspective: The Case of Peatlands in Ireland / Alessandra Accogli (University College Dublin)
- Climate justice: the transnational power of climate litigation / Paola Apollaro (University of Macerata)
- Exploring the convergence of rights violations and climate harms in adjudication / Amelia Burnette (SCELG, University of Strathclyde)
- Extending the transnational environmental law discourse to climate-resilient development of women: exploring the virtuous cycle of gender-responsive adaptation and socioeconomic resilience / Raihanatul Jannat (CCEEL, University of Eastern Finland)
Discussant: 20 min
Q&A: 15 min
Comfort break (15 min)
Panel 2 (10:45am – 12:15pm):
Nature and biodiversity protection in global environmental law (Chair: David Kothamasi)
- Thinking infrastructurally the ocean: a way forward to foster the human-ocean nexus in ocean governance / Vonintsoa Rafaly (University of Copenhagen)
- The introduction of ‘ecological compensation’ in the management of marine protected areas in China / Xie Jiarui (Wuhan University)
- Judges in white coats? How courts assess EIAs / Rika Fajrini (Kyoto University)
- Resetting the table: a question of the ownership of agricultural land in Scotland / Lin Batten (University of Strathclyde)
Discussant: 20 min
Q&A: 15 min
Lunch Break (12:15pm – 1:00pm)
Panel 3 (1:00pm – 2:30pm):
Public International Law and Global Environmental Governance: traditional and (re)emerging debates (Chair: Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann)
- The participation of states in environmental harm. Responsibility for breach of due diligence or complicity? / Chiara Venturini (University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’)
- Proving environmental harm in inter-state litigation / Francesca Sironi De Gregorio (University of Palermo)
- Subverting ‘civilised’ international law: a dialogic approach to decolonising international law / Iona McEntee (SCELG, University of Strathclyde)
- Global Climate Change Governance: negotiating the process of decolonisation / Moritz Vinken (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law)
Discussant: 20 min
Q&A: 15 min
Coffee break (2:30pm – 3:00pm)
Panel 4 (3:00pm – 4:30pm):
Global Environmental Law and the Global South: Anything to Learn by the Global North? (Chair: Saskia Vermeylen)
- Understanding the state of water in India: An unequal crisis, the law, and the governance landscape / Kanika Jamwal (National University of Singapore)
- Disentitling the indigenous peoples and local communities: locating the retrogressive trends within Indian biodiversity law / Alphonsa Jojan (University of Newcastle, Australia)
- Back to the roots: the role of support structures in climate litigation in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico / Carlotta Garofalo (University of Graz)
Discussant: 20 min
Q&A: 15 min
For any questions, please liaise with iona.mcentee@strath.ac.uk and scelg@strath.ac.uk