Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation

Edited by:   Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger (University of Cambridge), Marcel Szabó, Alexandra R. Harrington
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 158mm,  Spine: 50mm
Weight:   1.360kg
ISBN:   9781108488020
ISBN 10:   1108488021
Series:   Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development
Pages:   500
Publication Date:   15 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, Full Professor of Law at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Executive Secretary to the Climate Law and Governance Initiative, a UNFCCC partnership supporting implementation of the Paris Agreement. She serves as Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Chair of the Future Board for Bit Bio, on the Board of the International Law Association, as a Law Fellow and DoS for Lucy Cavendish College, a founding Fellow of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (CEENRG) and affiliated Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) in Cambridge. Author or editor of over twenty books and 120 papers, she edits the Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development series for Cambridge University Press and serves on the editorial boards of several law journals, also advising countries and international organisation on treaty commitments on climate change, biodiversity, trade, investment and other Sustainable Development Goals. Marcel Szabó is Full Professor and Head of the Department of European Law at Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest). Besides his academic career, between 2011-2012 Professor Szabó represented the Hungarian Government in front of the International Court of Justice in the Hague, between 2012-2016 ha was the Deputy Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and Ombudsman for Future Generations in Hungary. Professor Szabó was elected as justice at the Constitutional Court of Hungary in 2016, for twelve years. He is Founder and Honorary Chair of the Network of Institutions of Future Generations. His main areas of research are international environmental law, rights of future generations, responsibility of states in public international law, and public international law and EU-law in the case-law of the Constitutional Court of Hungary. Professor Szabó is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law. Alexandra R. Harrington is Research Director and Lead Counsel (Peace, Justice and Governance) with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law and Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. She serves as the Director of Studies for ILA Colombia, a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and Visiting Professor at Albany Law School. Dr Harrington is the author of International Organizations and the Law and the forthcoming International Law and Global Governance: Treaty Regimes and Sustainable Development Goals Interpretation as well as dozens of articles and book chapters.