Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG): 'The Prevention of Environmental Harm in International Law'

Speaker: Dr Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, Lecturer at King's College London

Prevention is recognized as a cornerstone of international environmental law, but this principle remains abstract and elusive in terms of exactly what is required of states to prevent environmental harm In her book The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law Dr Duvic Paoli addresses this issue by offering a systematic, comprehensive assessment in which she clarifies the rationale, content, and scope of the prevention principle while also placing it in a wider legal context The book offers a detailed analysis of treaty law, custom codification works, and case law before culminating in a conceptualization of prevention based on three definitional traits 1 Its anticipatory rationale 2 Its due diligence content and 3 Its wide spatial scope to protect the environment as a whole This book should be read by anyone seeking to understand the evolving principle of prevention in international environmental law, and how it increasingly shares common ground with reparation in the arena of compliance control

Dr Leslie Anne Duvic Paoli is a Lecturer at King's College London Before joining The Dickson Poon School of Law in August 2017 she was Philomathia Post doctoral Research Associate at C EENRG Leslie Anne is a public international lawyer, with expertise in international environmental law She is particularly interested in understanding the nature and content of its principles her monograph, entitled The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law, has been published by Cambridge University Press.

Leslie Anne's research also looks at the energy transition to a low carbon economy from an international and comparative law perspective One aspect of her research concentrates on the externalities of the energy transition, as she seeks to clarify the interactions between international environmental and energy law

Coffee, tea and biscuits will be available shortly after the talk.