Emilie Topp Bluitgen

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Emilie Topp Bluitgen is a Ph.D.-student at the Centre for European and Comparative Legal Studies (CECS) at the University of Copenhagen. Emilie is interested in climate change law, international law, public law and constitutional law.

Emilie’s dissertation focuses on the intergenerational aspects of climate change law from a national perspective. It is interesting to work with justice between generations from a legal perspective, as it gives rise to certain democratic inequalities between future generations and existing generations. Decisions taken today regarding climate mitigation and adaption will have a greater impact on future generations, but they, for natural reasons, do not have the opportunity to make their interests known or heard, either formally through participation in the democratic system or outside the democratic system through participating in public debates. The dissertation aims to examine how future generations are protected in the climate and environmental law, including how the principle of intergenerational equity is used and articulated therein. 

Emilie holds a Master in Laws from the University of Copenhagen from 2015, and in addition, she has studied International Law at Harvard University. Previously Emilie has worked several years as a lawyer and has taught Institutionel forfatningsret og EU-forfatningsret at BA-level at Copenhagen University.