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Jul 15, 2009 - 9:30-10:30 a.m.
CDM Reforms in the Context of a Greater Protocol: Berkeley Law Students' Perspective from Copenhagen
With less than six months before the world gathers to negotiate a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, all eyes are turning towards Copenhagen. In a prelude to this historic meeting in December, four law students from the University of California, Berkeley, traveled to Denmark as finalists in an international negotiation competition that centered on reforming Kyoto's market–based offset system, the Clean Development Mechanism (“CDM”).
Organized and hosted by the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen, the competition brought together young legal minds from six continents to generate innovative ideas for improving the CDM’s economic efficiency, administrability, and equity. The students’ proposals were published and presented to the Danish Prime Minister and his top climate negotiators.
Review the audio recording and PowerPoint presentation here.
March 17, 2008 - 12:45-1:45 p.m.
Arctic Boundaries and Climate Change: The Changing Concept of Space and Place in the Arctic and the Ensuing Battle of the International Community to Lay Claim
The UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) and ASIL proudly present a lunchtime talk on the current path of the Arctic. Highlighting the dramatic effects that climate change has had on the region, the program will examine the ways in which the area is rapidly transforming, as well as the effect this will have on territorial negotiations in the international sphere.
Speakers:
David Caron
David Caron '83 currently teaches public international law, resolution of private international disputes, and ocean law and policy at Berkeley Law and is the co-director of the school’s Law of the Sea Institute. Caron has also served as chair of the International Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, counsel for Ethiopia before the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, and president of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Tribunal.
Harry Scheiber
Harry Scheiber joined the Boalt faculty in 1980, where he has served as director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society and the chair of the UC Berkeley Academic Senate. Scheiber has also held a multitude of fellowships with Guggenheim, Rockefeller, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Social Science Research Council. He has also led research projects and written extensively on environmental law – namely the Law of the Sea and ocean resources policy.