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The Role of European Union Law in the Global Green Economy
September 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
| Location: | 608 Robertson Hall |
| Cost: | Free |
2012 Canada-Europe Law Lecture
Light lunch available preceding the lecture in the adjacent Alumni Room, 617, Robertson Hall
Registration Required (see below)
This lecture will explore the role that EU law plays in the transition to a global green economy. Starting with the expansion of the EU carbon Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) to global aviation, Prof. Gehring will analyze several measures in force in the EU and associated decisions by the European Court of Justice that have potential implications beyond the borders of the EU itself for the creation of a global green economy.
Professor Markus W. Gehring, D. jur (Hamb), LL.M. (Yale), MA (Cantab) is the ad personam Jean Monnet Chair in Sustainable Development Law at the University of Ottawa, Civil Law Section. He also serves as Lead Counsel for Sustainable Trade, Investment and Financial Law with the Centre of International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Montreal. He also is a tutor in Sustainable Development Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and a Fellow in Law at Robinson College.
He represented the CISDL at WTO negotiations in Doha, Cancun, Hong Kong and Geneva and several other international conferences. He served on the Research Committee o
f the IUCN Academy for Environmental Law and is principal investigator for a ‘Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’(SSHRC) grant on Trade Impact Assessments. Gehring has published on various aspects of economic, European and sustainable development law, including most recently a book with M.C. Cordonier Segger and Andrew Newcombe, Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (Kluwer Law International 2010).
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The event is supported, in part, by a grant from the European Commission, for more information contact ces@carleton.ca or 613 520-2600, ext. 1087