The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law 2.0

Professor Daniel Bodansky’s seminal and widely acclaimed book The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law was first published in 2010. In contrast to other general works on international environmental law, this book focused on the processes developing, implementing, and enforcing international environmental law rather than on legal doctrine. In order to comprehensively analyse these processes, the book is highly interdisciplinary, relying not only on the legal toolkit but integrating perspectives and lenses of political science and economics, as well as philosophy, sociology, and anthropology.

Later this year Oxford University Press will publish the second edition of The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law, a second edition that will be co-authored by Professors Daniel Bodansky and Harro van Asselt. Aside from the co-authorship, this second edition differs in several important aspects from the previous edition, in order to adequately reflect and grasp the important developments that international environmental law has witnessed during the last decade.

During the Monday Meeting of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Professor Bodansky will provide an overview of the approach to international environmental law taken in this second edition, highlighting to what extent it differs from the first. This presentation is intended to subsequently lead to a discussion on developments specifically in the international climate change regime, including prospects for the Paris Agreement and the recent request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate change.

Daniel Bodansky is a leading authority on international environmental law generally, and global climate change law in particular. He is a Regents and Foundation Professor of Law at Arizona State University and served, amongst others, as the Climate Change Coordinator at the US Department of State (1999–2001). Professor Bodansky’s publication record includes leading works in the fields of international environmental and climate change law, such as The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (1st edn, Oxford University Press 2008, co-edited with Jutta Brunnée and Ellen Hey), The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law (Harvard University Press 2010), and International Climate Change Law (Oxford University Press 2017, co-authored with Jutta Brunnée and Lavanya Rajamani).