See the Future - Mar, Ambiente e Alterações Climáticas
Tópicos de pesquisa
Climate Litigation Lab: Mapping judicial decisions from different jurisdictions to assess their main breakthroughs and the commonalities and differences among them — to understand what legal solutions can be transplanted from other jurisdictions. The project aims to work as a lab for testing how solutions can be legally transplanted. The research also focuses on courts’ strategies to pressure climate policies while preserving their reputation; and on the impact of courts’ rulings in law-making.
Sustainable Cities: Understanding the legal framework for urban solutions in the context of a green and climate transition.
Environmental Rights: As environmental rights are still largely confined to a set of procedural rights related to the environment, this activity aims to study how a substantive right to a healthy environment can be crafted and used in legal claims.
Marine Environmental Protection: The stress caused to the marine environment is explained by: the lack of a robust treaty regime aimed at protecting and preserving the marine environment, the fragmented regulation; and the fragmented implementation of these few treaties by States, who are asked but not forced to coordinate their action in relation to the marine environment. This activity assesses the drivers and difficulties of this legal regime to propose an alternative regulatory strategy.
Human Rights at Sea: At sea, human rights are under enhanced stress; the categories of individuals who are at sea are varied, and States’ jurisdiction at sea is hard to trace and overlapping. This activity assesses what States can be held responsible for securing the enjoyment of human rights at sea; what groups are more vulnerable at sea; and what strategies can be implemented to secure the enjoyment of human rights at sea. This activity benefits from a researcher’s participation in the ILAs Committee on the Protection of Persons at Sea.
Conferences: The research group will centralise the organization of the 2025 International Congress on the Right to Food and the 2026 Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law (ESIL).
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