The strengths and weaknesses of international law in the face of global and planetary challenges : what changes are needed ?

Session 1 - International law and global and planetary change: power/impotence of law?

Chair : Olivier de Frouville, Professor at Paris Panthéon-Assas University.

Abstract

If we compare the impressive development of international environmental law with the rapidly worsening environmental problems regularly highlighted in environmental reports, it is clear that the proliferation of rules has not produced the desired results. This observation leads us to question the strengths and weaknesses of international environmental law, and its ability to support the transformations our societies need to face up to these challenges.

Sandrine Maljean-Dubois

Sandrine Maljean-Dubois is director of research at the CNRS, attached to the CERIC, a member of the UMR "  DICE  " international, comparative and European law, based at Aix-Marseille university.
A specialist in international environmental law, Sandrine Maljean-Duboisis the author of numerous books and articles in this field, and teaches at Aix-Marseille University and Sciences Po Aix. She has been a guest professor at Senghor University in Alexandria, Egypt, Laval University in Canada, the University of Brasilia in Brazil, the Pearl Delta River Academy in Shenzhen, the Catholic University of Louvain, and The Hague Academy of International Law (Beijing, 2010, Yaoundé, 2017, The Hague, 2019). She teaches the online environmental law lecture at the Université numérique juridique francophone. Sandrine Maljean-Dubois has been involved in various international negotiation processes (COP 21, UNESCO, Global Compact for the Environment Expert Group).