International Legal Research Group

Key details

• Engage in pro bono legal research projects on law and policy related to climate change, biodiversity and biosafety, natural resources governance, trade and investment, human rights and poverty eradication, health and hazards, and governance, institutions and accountability
• Compile a Sustainable Development Law on Climate Change Paper Series and support Climate Law and Governance Day (CLGD) and official side-events at COP22/23 to the UNFCCC
• Assist an international legal research and training project on the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), including Biodiversity Law and Governance Day (BLGD), an official side-event at COP13 to the UNCBD
• Edit a new book on sustainable development in the Chicago Convention on aviation (with CUP)
• Draft the authoritative legal Commentary on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Support a new international legal research project on innovative laws to implement the UN Biodiversity Convention, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the Convention on Migratory Species, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
• Join a legal research project on the sustainable use of biofuels across the Americas
• Lead an international legal research project on assessing and implementing sustainable development obligations in new regional trade agreements (with CUP)
• Edit a new textbook on human rights and climate change
• Edit a Legal Working Paper and Workshops Series on legal aspects of indigenous sustainable management of natural resources, leading to a new book on the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (with CUP)
• Lead a research project on the involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill
• Create new online sustainable development law courses and develop sustainable development law course materials
• Company mission
• The Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) is an independent international legal research center that brings together economic, human rights and environmental law for just and sustainable development through cutting-edge international research and educational initiatives