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DROP welcomes Prof Xiaohu Zhang as new fellow
Prof Xiaohu Zhang is Associate Professor of Law at Xiangtan University in China, deputy director of Centre for African Laws and Society, researcher of China-Africa Institute for Business and Law, currently visiting scholar at Stellenbosch University and executive...
DROP welcomes Eeshan Chaturvedi as new fellow
Eeshan Chaturvedi is a renowned environmental and energy lawyer, and scholar. He is the Founder-Director of 'EnviPol' (envipol.org) and Co-Director of the Global Policy, Diplomacy, and Sustainability (GPODS) Fellowship (gpods.org). At DROP we look forward to the new...
Climate change and decarbonisation @ International Bar Association
DROP director Prof OC Ruppel recently addressed the International Bar Association (IBA), which is comprised of more than 80,000 international lawyers from most of the world’s leading law firms and some 190 bar associations and law societies spanning more than 170...
Prof. Dr. Eva Schulev-Steindl now distinguished non-resident senior fellow at DROP
DROP is privileged to welcome Prof. Dr. Eva Schulev-Steindl as a distinguished non-resident senior fellow. She is Professor of Public Law and Economic Law at the University of Graz in Austria Her research focuses on environmental and climate law as well as on the...
New: ClimLaw @ the University of Graz, Austria
At the official occasion of the inception conference of ClimLaw, the Graz Research Center for Climate Law on 17 June 2020 at the University of Graz in Austria, Professor Dr. Oliver Ruppel gave an online presentation on “Climate Law and Climate Science”. He...
GLOBAL PANDEMIC NETWORK / SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
DROP congratulates the inception of the newly constituted Scientific Committee of the Global Pandemic Network (GPN): LIST OF MEMBERS - GPN ENVIRONEMNT SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
World Environment Day 2020: The phenomenon of ‘crisis’ and the nexus between Covid-19 and climate
https://www.iol.co.za/news/opinion/world-environment-day-2020-the-phenomenon-of-crisis-and-the-nexus-between-covid-19-and-climate-49001226
Climate governance, law and litigation in South Africa
Newest DROP research available in the German Journal for Environmental Law / Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht, 2020, Vol 5: https://www.zur.nomos.de/archiv/2020/heft-5/ Oliver C. Ruppel/Georg W. Junger/Keeley M. Knutton Der Klimawandel in der Governance, Gesetzgebung und...
DROP welcomes Peter de Clercq as distinguished non-resident fellow
Mr. Peter de Clercq is a distinguished non-resident fellow at DROP, where he will engage in impact-driven, trans-disciplinary research focussing on academic diplomacy in Africa. He is the former Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia...
Legal Instruments for Sustainable Soil Management in Africa
Editors: Yahyah, H., Ginzky, H., Kasimbazi, E., Kibugi, R., Ruppel, O.C. (Eds.) Springer 2020 See: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030360030 Soils_2020