College Director of Studies elected to Academia Europaea
Benedikt Löwe has been elected in recognition of his academic excellence in the field of logic and philosophy of mathematics.
Our warmest congratulations to Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger on her new book
As countries and communities seek to recover from the global pandemic and reopen the world economy, her book titled ‘Crafting Trade and Investment Accords for Sustainable Development’, and available from Oxford University Press, examines the measures being debated in the WTO and and adopted by States in a selection drawn from over three hundred and fifty innovative and flexible regional and bilateral trade and investment accords. With legal examples spanning decades of experimentation and experience, the book illuminates how States and stakeholders are seeking innovative ways to integrate environmental and social considerations into trade and investment agreements. Introducing a ground-breaking systematic approach, the volume considers how, through this integration, international trade and investment law can scale up and contribute to the achievement of the world's Sustainable Development Goals.
“Research and educational institutions should scale up our own contributions to a deeper understanding of trade and investment law, and its potential to foster not frustrate sustainable development” writes Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger.
This visionary new volume was launched this week in 'The Global Economy, the SDGs and the Law', a special online Leverhulme Lecture on "Crafting Trade and Investment Agreements for Sustainable Development" which was hosted by Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope, together with Professor Diane Coyle of the Bennett Institute, and was opened by an inspirational and insightful address by Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the new Director-General of the World Trade Organization, before a Distinguished Experts Dialogue which engaged Adv Meg Kinnear, Secretary-General of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, Wendy Miles QC, Vice-president of the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration, Adv Anna Joubin-Bret, Secretary of the United Nations Commission for International Trade, and Adv Wayne Garnons-Williams, Chair of the International Inter-tribal Trade and Investment Organisation, among others, and attracted over 1,300 registrants.
View Leverhulme Lecture presentation slides.
About the author
Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law - LLM & MCL at Lucy Cavendish College. She is also Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, based at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy in Politics and International Studies, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in the Law Faculty, and the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (CEENRG) in Land Economy. She also serves as Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), an international legal education and research institute based at McGill University, as Executive Secretary of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI); and a Full Professor of Law in the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Read her Fellow’s profile here.
