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Sustainable Development Law analyses the advances and challenges in the international law on sustainable development at the intersection between international social, environmental, and economic law.
List of contents
- I. The Foundations
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Origins of Sustainable Development in Policy
- 3: Origins of Sustainable Development in International Law
- II. The Principles
- 4: Principles of International Law Relating
- 5: Settlement of International Disputes on Sustainable Development
- III. The Practices
- 6: Law and Practice of Sustainable Development Goals on Human Rights and Societies
- 7: Law and Practice of Sustainable Development Goals Related to the Global Economy
- 8: Law and Practice of Sustainable Development Goals for the Biosphere
- 9: The Law and Practices of Sustainable Development Goals for Global Governance
- IV. The Prospects
- 10: Emerging Trends in Regimes and Instruments for Sustainable Development
- 11: Limits of the Sustainable Development Goals, Law and Governance in the Context of Decolonization
- 12: Conclusions
About the author
Prof. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is a world-leading scholar and jurist in the field of sustainable development law and governance. She holds the Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy at the University of Cambridge, where she is also law fellow and director of studies at Lucy Cavendish College, and a fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. As Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), she has published over 24 books and more than 160 papers in five languages, and edits a CUP series on sustainable development treaty implementation. Prof. Cordonier Segger holds PhDs of law from both Oxford and Cambridge, is a laureate of the prestigious HE Judge CG Weeramantry International Justice Award and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2022.
Professor Damilola S. Olawuyi is UNESCO Chair in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at the College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Vice Chair of the International Law Association. He is an eminent member of the Academic Advisory Group of the International Bar Association's Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL), where his books on international economic law, poverty eradication and sustainable development have won impressive accolades. He is Senior Advocate of Nigeria and is laureate of the prestigious HE Judge CG Weeramantry International Justice Award 2024.
