Our Endorsements

Friends of the Initiative

  • Professor Jacqueline Peel of the University of Melbourne, an internationally-recognised expert in the field of environmental and climate change law who has written extensively on climate change litigation; 

  • Professor Michael Gerrard, experienced environmental litigator and founder and director of the world’s preeminent climate law centre, Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

  • ·Professor Wendy Jacobs, Esq, Director of the Harvard Law School Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic and an experienced environmental litigator.

  • Dr Morgan Wairiu, Incoming Director of USP’s Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development where many of the Pacific island country negotiators now attending UNFCCC COPs trained.

  • Farhana Yamin, an international environmental lawyer with nearly 30 years of experience writing, teaching and negotiating climate law, currently an Associate Fellow at Chatham House.

  • Professor Douglas Kysar, Deputy Dean of Yale Law School, who has for some years researched and advocated for an ICJ AO on climate change.

Experts supporting an ICJAO on climate change:

  1. Professor Morgan Wairiu, Natural Resources Specialist - Solomon Islands

  2. Professor Jacqueline Peel, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

  3. Professor Michael Gerrard, Columbia Law School, Columbia University

  4. Professor John Dugard, Leiden Law School, Leiden University

  5. Professor Douglas Kysar, Yale Law School, Yale University

  6. Professor Wendy Jacobs, Harvard Law School, Harvard University

  7. Professor Jorge E Vinuales, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

  8. Professor David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment and University of British Colombia

  9. Professor Katrina Kuh, Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

  10. Professor Tim Stephens, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney

  11. Professor Rosemary Lyster, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney

  12. Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Director,  Centre for International Sustainable Development Law

  13. Professor Klaus Bosselmann, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland

  14. Professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

  15. Professor Don Anton, Griffith Law School, Griffith University

  16. Professor Meinhard Doelle, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

  17. Professor David Forman, School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa

  18. Professor Melissa Scanlan, Vermont Law School

  19. Professor Alex Gardner, School of Law, University of Western Australia

  20. Professor Joanne Scott, Department of Law, European University Institute

  21. Professor Sumudu Attapatu, Director of Research Centers, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School

  22. Professor David Takacs, Hastings College of Law, University of California

  23. Professor Jolene Lin, Director, Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

  24. Professor Sharon Mascher,  Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

  25. Professor Roger Clark, Rutgers Law School, Rutgers University 

  26. Professor John Dernbach, Widener University Commonwealth Law School, Widener University

  27. Attorney Antonio A. Oposa Jnr, Ramon Magsaysay Award Winner, Philippines

  28. Professor Lisa Benjamin, Lewis & Clark Law School

  29. Professor Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law School

  30. Professor Rebecca Bratspies, School of Law, College University of New York

  31. Professor Nigel Bankes, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

  32. Farhana Yamin, Associate Fellow, Chatham House

  33. Professor Stephen Stec, Environmental Sciences and Policy Department, Central European University, Hungary

  34. Professor Muhammed T Ladan, Faculty of Law, Ahmadu Bello University 

  35. Professor Zygmunt Broel Plater, Boston College Law School Boston College

  36. Professor Shelley Saxer, School of Law, Pepperdine University 

  37. Professor Ademola Jegede, School of Law, University of Venda, South Africa

  38. Associate Professor Achinthi Vithanage, George Washington University Law School

  39. Professor Randall Abate, Political Science Department, Monmouth University

  40. Adj. Assoc Professor Justin Rose, School of Law, University of the South Pacific

  41. Dr Morsen Moses, School of Law, University of the South Pacific

  42. Dr Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Leiden University and University of the South Pacific

  43. Lee-Ann Sackett, School of Law, University of the South Pacific