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2022 – WTO LLM Conference Series
The LLM Candidates at Stellenbosch University, in the Module “Legal Aspects of World and Regional Trade” module successfully facilitated a series of Mini-Conferences under the supervision and assessment of Professor OC Ruppel. The series of four conferences...
Global Policy Diplomacy and Sustainability (GPODS) Fellowship at the intersection of public policy, international diplomacy and environment sustainability.
Vacancy – DROP Research Assistant – 2022
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New: Climate Law – Current Opportunities and Challenges
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Climate action and SDG13: The legal dimension
Stellenbosch University LLM students on Sustainable Development Law photographed to commemorate the LLM Mini-Conference on Selected legal aspects of International Climate Action, which took place at Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Law on the 11th of October 2021....
World Humanitarian Day 2021: The humanitarian cost of the climate crisis
See article: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-08-18-hesitation-price-tag-the-humanitarian-cost-of-failing-to-act-on-the-climate-crisis-while-we-enter-code-red/Hesitation price tag: The humanitarian cost of failing to act on the climate crisis while we...
World Environment Day 2021: Judicial number-crunching needed to avert the climate crunch
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-06-03-world-environment-day-judicial-number-crunching-needed-to-avert-the-climate-crunch/
“Our Earth Matters”
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Stockholm conference that created the United Nations Environmental Programme, it is clear that the global environmental situation has only deteriorated. In “Our Earth Matters: Pathways to a Better Common Environmental...
New: African Soil Protection Law
African Soil Protection Law: Mapping out options for a model legislation for improved sustainable soil management in Africa – a comparative legal analysis from Kenya, Cameroon and Zambia. Edited by Prof. Dr. Oliver C. Ruppel, LL.M. and Dr. Harald Ginzky. 2021, 528...
DROP director ‘Expert Reviewer’ in the IPCC Scholarship Programme
The Sixth Round of Awards of the United Nations Intergovernmental Programme on Climate Chnage (IPCC) Scholarship Programme is on now and Professor Oliver Ruppel was again nominated as distinguished Expert Reviewer. The IPCC Scholarship Programme was established with...