News from CILG

Pernille Holten Poulsen joins CILG as a PhD Fellow. Her research will be carried out under the supervision of Associate Professor Beatriz Martinez Romera and Associate Professor Kristian Cedervall Lauta.

Federica joined CILG in September 2021 as a project student. At CILG, she will assist on different research projects.

As of 1 September 2021, two new researchers are joining the Center for International Law and Governance (CILG) as part of the project ‘International Law-Making: Actors in Shipping and Climate Change (InterAct)’ (PI Associate Prof. Beatriz Martinez Romera): Postdoc Viktor Weber and PhD student Ana Stella Ebbersmeyer.

Johanna Sophie Bürkert has started a three-year PhD project on nexusing socio-ecological arctic resilience and law from the 1 September 2021.

Beatriz Martinez Romera (Centre for International Law and Governance) has received a two-year grant (398.496 kr) from the University of Copenhagen for the interdisciplinary research network on Climate Arctic Governance (CArGo)

We are happy to announce that Dr Justine Bendel will be joining CILG with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to carry out the project ‘Implementation Issues in Global Environmental Law: The Case of Forests (Interfor)’, in cooperation with  Associate Professor Beatriz Martinez Romera.

CILG is co-organizing the Third Annual Conference of the Transatlantic University Collaboration for Climate and Energy Law (TUCCCEL) 

PhD Student at CILG, Kathrine Elmose Jørgensen has together with Associate Professor Jakob Demant, contributed to the journal First Monday with the article ‘Shame, shaming and economy: A theory of image-based sexual abuse within different online sharing environments’.

Would you like to write your bachelor/master thesis in Environmental Law, Climate Change Law or the Energy Transition? The Greenhouse and CILG are looking for curious and motivated bachelor and master students who would like to write their thesis in the field of Environmental Law, Climate Change Law and the Energy Transition.

For the second year in a row, the best student paper of the Master course of the Transatlantic University Collaboration in Climate Change and Energy Law (TUCCCEL) has been published.

Professor Kristian Lauta (CILG) has received a Research Infrastructure grant (partner) of DKK ~0,46 mio. (JUR share) from the Carlsberg Foundation for the project ‘SSH and Sustainable Business: Building a database for SSH impact on sustainability in private sector companies to Professor’ (PI: Steffen Dalsgaard, ITU).

Beatriz Martinez Romera has received the Young Researcher Fellowship (DKK 4,486,646) from the Carlsberg Foundation for the project International Law-Making: Actors in Shipping and Climate Change (InterAct).

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Beatriz Martinez Romera (Center for International Law and Governance - CILG) has received a grant (DKK 2,876,368) from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) - Thematic Call Green Transition.

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Response makes 29 concrete recommendations for artificial intelligence regulation

Based on a 2019 academic article, Professor Morten Broberg concludes that the Danish COVID-19 actions do not contravene EU free movement rules.

The ‘International Law Breakfast Briefings’ provide an opportunity for researchers, practitioners and students with an interest in international law to meet on a regular basis and exchange research, experience and views.

New paper explores how AI may drive development, displacement or destruction of global legal order

New workshop on Sept 5^th to host public conversation on the next chapter in human rights.

Liu, van Rompaey, Maas, Clark et al. aim for new paradigm on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems & military AI.

Carbon and Climate Law Review (CCLR) Special Issue: Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading in China.

A group of individuals representing the Australian Torres Strait Islander community has lodged a complaint alleging that Australia's inaction on climate change has violated their human rights. Assistant Professor Miriam Cullen outlined the parameters of exactly this claim in the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment in September last year.

Matthijs Maas visits Ministry of Foreign Affairs for discussion of ‘technology in the service of public goods’

Artificial intelligence offers exciting opportunities to improve our lives. But if we do not set sharp limits, we run the risk of undermining even the most basic human rights.

“TLDR: there’s hope, but with caveats” -- Matthijs Maas.

How to regulate for a world with Artificial Intelligence?

Co-authored paper featured in BBC ‘Deep Civilization’ long-read, on the perils of short-termism

Associate Professor Amnon Lev has been appointed head of the research centre CILCC as of 15 January 2019.

Denmark is using algorithms to deliver benefits to citizens and undermining its own democracy in the process.