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Climate Law

Climate Law

Program overview

Climate change will be a foremost theme that will influence financial activities, policy, and legal frameworks for years to come. In a noticeably short time span, climate change has become a global challenge calling for collective action. Climate change law is emerging as a new legal discipline. Using various case studies, this course will explore how climate change law relates to other areas of law and how climate change has elicited rulemaking process at the international, regional, national, and local levels. The class will be invited to study the negotiation process, implementation, and current status of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The class will then proceed to evaluate the various legal tools that are available at national and international level to address climate change, including cap-and-trade, carbon taxation, litigation, and voluntary actions.

Location

In-person

Language

English

Duration

3 Days

Program Start

July 16, 2024

Program End

July 18, 2024

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify the main principles of climate change law and policy to understand one of the main challenges humanity faces today.

  • Recognize how the main principles of law and policy of climate change apply transnationally.

  • Critically analyze legal problems related to common concerns such as climate change and public goods such as the mitigation of climate change.

  • Synthesize complex topics of climate change from a scientific, economic, legal, political, institutional, regulatory, and historical point of view.

  • Describe, analyze, and criticize the main challenges of climate change.

  • Work in teams on projects involving critical thinking on legal and policy issues.

Who Should Attend?

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Mid- and senior-level professionals

The course is designed so that professionals with functions relating to international relations, climate negotiations, international trade, international economics, and/or legal services can evaluate the various legal tools that are available at national and international level to address climate change, including cap-and-trade, carbon taxation, litigation, and voluntary actions.

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Proficiency of written and spoken English

The program will be delivered in English. Applicants should be proficient in written and spoken English.

Faculty

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Rafael Leal Arcas

Rafael Arcas is a Professor of Law and Public Policy at KSPP. He conducts analysis at the crossroads of various issue-areas (such as EU external relations, international trade, investment, climate change, and energy) from an interdisciplinary perspective at the national, supranational, and international levels. He completed his graduate legal education with a PhD and four Master’s degrees: (i) a JSM from Stanford Law School, (ii) an LLM from Columbia Law School (where he obtained the Parker School Certificate for Achievement in International and Comparative Law), (iii) an MPhil from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and (iv) a PhD as well as (v) an MA in legal research from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy).

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