I am delighted to pass along information about what promises to be a marvelous conference. The University of Dundee is organising a conference on Just Transitions and International Law to be held on 7-8 September 2023.The Organizing committee includes Prof. Jacques Hartmann; Dr. Claire Methven O'Brien; Dr. Sufyan El Droubi; and Joanna Kyle, Dundee International Law Society. The Conference is conference is supported by the Society of Legal Scholars Small Projects and Events Fund.
Just Transitions and International Law conference
Conference Concept Note:
Climate change threatens humanity and supporting ecosystems. International and regional legal and policy frameworks, governments, development actors and the private sector are striving to deliver a global green energy transition. Several international instruments affirm that this transition must be ‘just’ and align with wider sustainable development objectives and human rights norms. The 2015 Paris Agreement, for example, acknowledges ‘the imperatives of a just transitions of the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs in accordance with nationally defined development priorities’, while the UN 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals combine green energy transition and other environmental objectives with wide-ranging social and economic targets. Self-evidently, measures to secure a systemic shift toward a lower carbon economy affects all countries, regions, industries, and communities.
The idea of a just transitions evokes policies that are designed and implemented in line with international principles, such as equity, participation, transparency and inclusion, and international human rights. But the law, policy and scholarship on ‘just transitions’ is nascent and fragmented. There are sizeable knowledge gaps over the underlying conceptual architecture, economic, institutional, and social implications of a just transitions, at international, regional and national levels.
The conference will analyse challenges raised by just transitions to a low-carbon economy in, and for, international law. These challenges will be considered in six panels, focusing on: Human Rights and Just Transitions
--Just Transitions and Business
--Just Transitions and International Economic and Investment Law
--Just Transition and Energy Law
--Global Perspectives on Just Transitions
--Just Transitions Litigation
The conference includes two keynote speeches delivered by Judge Tim Eicke, the European Court of Human Rights, and Professor Freya Baetens, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford.
More on the keynote speakers follows.
Keynote speakers
Judge Tim Eicke
Judge Tim Eicke KC has been the judge elected in respect of the UK at the European Court of Human Rights since 2016. After studying the English Law LLB at Dundee University, he practised as a barrister at Essex Court Chambers and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2011. As a barrister, Judge Eicke regularly presented cases before the UK Supreme Court, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.
Freya Baetens
Freya Baetens is Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Head of Programmes at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Fellow at Mansfield College. As a Member of the Brussels Bar, she regularly acts as counsel or expert in international and European disputes before international tribunals and courts such as the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the World Trade Organisation and the European Court of Justice.
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