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Friday, 4 November 2022 - 1.00pm
Location: 
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Berkowitz/Finley Lecture Hall

This is a joint annual lecture by the Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.

This lecture will not be recorded.

Lecture summary: How do state officials learn and implement obligations from multiple regimes? Global problems do not fit neatly into siloed fields of professional specialisation. For example, of the increasingly alarming problems facing the ocean – climate change, marine plastics debris, biodiversity loss, or overfishing – not one can be addressed without inter-agency cooperation and policy coherence at the national level. Yet the practical, operational, and theoretical challenges of coordination deserve more attention by international lawyers. This lecture builds on Professor Young’s experience with collaborative training initiatives in ocean governance in the Asia-Pacific and Africa, to which United Nations agencies, the World Bank and academic partners contribute. It points to the legal and other factors that establish priorities and hierarchies. Rather than simply technical or managerial issues of implementation, the lecture describes the high stakes of integrative initiatives such as ‘blue carbon’ programmes, the prohibition of fisheries subsidies or the protection of seafarers. It seeks to account for collaborative capacity-building activities according to the precepts of sovereignty, the duty to cooperate and regime interaction in international law.

Professor Margaret A Young FAAL is a Professor at Melbourne Law School who specialises in public international law, the law of the sea, international trade law, climate change and environmental law. Her latest collection, co-edited with Judge Hilary Charlesworth, explored national encounters with the International Court of Justice (2021). Her last book, The Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Indigenous and Forest Communities (CUP, 2017) won the Certificate of Merit in a Specialized Area of International Law from the American Society of International Law in 2019. She was awarded the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Academy of Environmental Law Junior Scholar Prize and the University of Melbourne Woodward Medal in Humanities and Social Sciences for her work Trading Fish, Saving Fish: The Interaction between Regimes in International Law (CUP, 2011). She was elected in 2021 as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. In 2016, she was the Director of Studies for public international law at the Hague Academy of International Law. Margaret began her academic career at the University of Cambridge, where she was the inaugural Research Fellow in Public International Law at Pembroke College and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. She holds an LLM (First) and a PhD from Cambridge (supervised by Professor James Crawford and Professor Joanne Scott) and a BA/LLB (Hons) from the University of Melbourne. She has been a Visiting Professor at the State University of Saint Petersburg and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School. In 2023, Margaret will commence an ARC Future Fellowship on the Blue Economy and International Law.

 

Chaired by: Dr Stefan Theil

 

The Lauterpacht Centre Friday lecture series is kindly supported by Cambridge University Press

 

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