【公共讲座】Equality, Climate Change, and Future Generations

主题：Equality, Climate Change, and Future Generations

主讲人：Niels Petersen, Professor of Public Law, International Law, and EU Law at University of Münster

主持人：Emanuel V. Towfigh, Professor of Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law

Gilad Abiri, Professor of Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law

时间: November 29, 2024 (Friday), 17:00 PM – 18:15 PM (China Standard Time)

地点：STL 209

语言：English

主讲人简介:

After studying in Münster and Geneva, Niels Petersen was a legal clerk with the Court of Appeal in Wiesbaden, the German Embassy in Bangkok and the GIZ Legal Advisory Service in Beijing. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg before spending an academic year at the New York University School of Law as a Visiting Doctoral Researcher. After finishing his PhD, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2007. During the academic year 2012/13, he returned to the NYU School of Law as a Hauser Research Scholar and Emile Noel Fellow. In 2014, he finished his Habilitation at the University of Bonn. Since February 2015, Niels is a Professor of Public Law, International Law, and EU Law at the University of Münster. Furthermore, he was Visiting Professor, inter alia, at the University of Auckland and the University of Paris Dauphine. His most important publication is the monograph Proportionality and Judicial Activism.

讲座摘要:

Climate change is one the most urgent challenges that humanity faces today. Increasingly, he fight against climate change is not restricted to the political arena. Instead, activists have initiated litigation to force governments and big companies to take action against climate change through courts. The talk will explore whether it is possible to derive positive obligations of state to mitigate climate change from equality and non-discrimination provisions in international human rights law. The main hypothesis that will be developed in the talk is that inaction on climate change constitutes a discrimination against future generations.

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