Visiting researcher to CECS: Bjørn-Oliver Magsig
Dr Bjørn-Oliver Magsig will be a visitor at CECS from 26 August to 2 September. Dr Magsig is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean (International) at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he focuses on public international law, climate change law, and the securitization of natural resources. His current work asks how states can move beyond narrow self-interest to share responsibility for the planet’s most pressing environmental challenges, exploring pathways towards cooperative sovereignty in a destabilising global order.
He serves on the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and the board of Lawyers for Climate Action New Zealand Inc (LCANZI), co-chairs the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) Oceans and International Environmental Law Interest Group, is an Associate of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law, and is an appointed expert to the Wuhan University China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (CIBOS) International Water Law Academy.