Adjudicating Climate Change: State, National, and International Approaches - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521879701 ISBN 13 : 9780521879705

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This book examines lawsuits over climate change that have been brought around the world.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

William C. G. Burns is the Class of '46 Visiting Professor with the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College. Most recently, Dr Burns was a Senior Fellow with the Center for Global Law and Policy at the Santa Clara University School of Law. Additionally, he serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy and co-chair of the International Environmental Law Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association. He received his B.S. in political science from Bradley University and his Ph.D. in international law from the University of Wales - Cardiff College of School of Law. Prior to his academic career, he spent more than twenty years in the nongovernmental sector, including as executive director of the GreenLife Society/Pacific Center for International Studies, a think tank that focused on implementation of international wildlife law. He has published more than 70 articles in a range of law, policy and science journals, including the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association and Global Change and he has served as the co-editor of three books.

Hari M. Osofsky is an Associate Professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law. She received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. She currently is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. Her articles have been published in a variety of journals, including the Washington University Law Quarterly, Villanova Law Review, Chicago Journal of International Law, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Stanford Journal of International Law, Virginia Journal of International Law and Yale Journal of International Law. Her advocacy work has included assisting with Earthjustice's annual submissions to the U.N. Human Rights Commission on environmental rights and with the Inuit Circumpolar Conference's petition on climate change to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She also has taught climate change litigation courses that assisted the Southern Environmental Law Center and Western Environmental Law Center.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521879701
• ISBN 13: 9780521879705
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 412
• Éditeur: Burns William C. G., Osofsky Hari M.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Avery; https://www.avery.fr/; ; chemin des peupliers 27; Dardilly; France