Climate Law - Current Opportunities and Challenges: : Essays from the Official Opening of ClimLaw; Graz

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In June 2020, the research center for climate law ClimLaw: Graz was officially opened at the University of Graz, Austria. As part of the festive opening, distinguished members of the Scientific Board of ClimLaw: Graz and PhD students specialising in climate law gave presentations on current opportunities and challenges in climate law. This volume assembles the essays and provides a testimony of the official launch of ClimLaw: Graz. Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time and calls for legal, interdisciplinary and coordinated responses. This volume offers a glimpse into the diverse and pressing issues of climate law subject to ongoing research at ClimLaw: Graz.
Current developments in climate law are critically observed and analysed from the national, EU and global perspective in steady dialogue with other disciplines. In doing so, ClimLaw: Graz is envisaged to become a nationally and internationally connected research, teaching and networking platform.

For interested readers, this book offers insight into selected aspects of the current legal debate on climate change and climate protection.

Eva Schulev-Steindl is Professor of Public and Commercial Law and Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Law at the University of Graz (Austria). She is the Founding Director of the research center for climate law ClimLaw: Graz.

Oliver C. Ruppel is Professor of Public and International Law at the Faculty of Law at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and Director of its Development and Rule of Law Programme. He is also the Co-Director of ClimLaw: Graz.

Ferdinand Kerschner is retired Professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Vice President of the Forum Science and Environment and Visiting Professor at Charles University Prague (Czech Republic).