Highlights

The contribution of Urgenda to the mitigation of climate change, (2022) Journal of Environmental Law (first view online) – additional online material: original spreadsheet or pdf version.

International Advisory Proceedings on Climate Change (2023) 44 Michigan Journal of International Law 41-115

Climate Change Mitigation as an Obligation under Customary International Law (2023) 48(1) Yale Journal of International Law 105-151

The Duty of Care of Fossil-Fuel Producers for Climate Change Mitigation: Milieudefensie v. Royal Dutch Shell District Court of the Hague (The Netherlands) (2022) 11(2) Transnational Environmental Law 407-418

Climate Change Mitigation as an Obligation under Human Rights Treaties? (2021) 115 American Journal of International Law 409-451

Temperature Targets and State Obligations on the Mitigation of Climate Change (2021) 33(3) Journal of Environmental Law (585-610), preprint version.

Climate Assessment as an Emerging Obligation under Customary International Law, (2019) 68(2) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 271-308 (version in free access) – ICLQ Young Scholar Prize 2019

International law obligations arising in relation to Nationally Determined Contributions (2018) 7(2) Transnational Environmental Law 251-2753 (version in free access).

Climate Change and International Law in the Grim Days (2013) 24(3) European Journal of International Law 947-970.

On international climate law

• Progression Requirements Applicable to State Action on Climate Change Mitigation under Nationally Determined Contributions International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (forthcoming) (free access).
• Prompting Climate Change Mitigation through Litigation (2023) 72(1) International & Comparative Law Quarterly 233-250 (open access).
• Climate Change Adaptation and the Law (2021) 39(2) Virginia Environmental Law Journal 141-176.
• Article 4: Mitigation, in Geert van Calster and Leonie Reins (eds.), A Commentary on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Implementation and Application (Edward Elgar, 2021), preprint version
• Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage: Existing and Emerging Legal Principles (2019) 13(2) Carbon and Climate Law Review 113-121 (version in free access).
• Interpreting States’ general obligations on climate change mitigation: A methodological review (2019) 28(2) Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 107-121 (version in free access)
• Legal Responses to Climate Change Induced Loss and Damage (co-authored with Florentina Simlinger), in Reinhard Mechler, Laurens M. Bouwer, Thomas Schinko, Swenja Surminski and JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer (eds), Loss and Damage from Climate Change. Concepts, Methods and Policy Options (Springer, 2019) 179-204.
• Transparency under the Paris Rulebook: An enhanced transparency framework? (2019) 9(1) Climate Law 40-64 (version in free access).
• Environmental Assessments in the Context of Climate Change: The Role of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (2019) 28(1) Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 82-93 (version in free access).
• A Review of the International Law Commission’s Guidelines on the Protection of the Atmosphere (2019) 20(2) Melbourne Journal of International Law 453-493.
• The Critical Functions of Scholarship in Climate Law (2018) 8:3-4 Climate Law 151-160 (version in free access).
• The Place of Customary Norms in Climate Law: A Reply to Zahar (2018) 8(3-4) Climate Law 261-278 (version in free access).
• Construing International Climate Change Law as a Compliance Regime (2018) 7(1) Transnational Environmental Law 115-137 (version in free access).
• Obligations of Conduct in the International Law on Climate Change: A Defence (2018) 27(2) Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 130-140.
• Climate Change Reparations and the Law and Practice of State Responsibility (2016) 7(1) Asian Journal of International Law 185-216 (version in free access).
• Human Rights in the Paris Agreement (2016) 6 Climate Law 109-117.
• The Relevance of the No-Harm Principle to Climate Change Law and Politics (2016) 19 Asia-Pacific Journal of Environmental Law 79-104.
• The Applicability of the Principle of Prevention to Climate Change: A Response to Zahar (2015) 5(1) Climate Law 1-24.
• State Responsibility and Climate Change Governance: A Light through the Storm (2014) 13(3) Chinese Journal of International Law 539-575 (version in free access).
• Justifying Climate Cooperation: Competing Narratives in a Divided World, in Usha Tandon (ed.), Climate Change: Law, Policy and Governance (Eastern Book Company, 2015), 1-15.
• Review of Rosemary Lyster, Climate Justice and Disaster Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016), in Carbon and Climate Law Review (forthcoming).
• Review of Shawkat Alam, Sumudu Atapattu, Carmen G. Gonzalez and Jona Razzaque, eds, International Environmental Law and the Global South (Cambridge University Press, 2015), in (2016) 6(3-4) Climate Law 373-75.
• Review of Sandrine Maljean-Dubois and Matthieu Wemaëre, COP 21: La diplomatie climatique de Rio 1992 à Paris 2015 (Paris: Pedone, 2015), (2016) Revue Générale de Droit International Public (forthcoming).
• Enjeux et résultats de la COP21 (2016) 41(1) Revue Juridique de l’Environnement 13-18.
• La sécurisation du changement climatique comme stratégie politique, in Nicolas Clinchamps et al. (eds), Sécurité et environnement (Bruylant, 2016), 239-258.
• Conceiving the Rationale for International Climate Law (2015) 130(3) Climatic Change 371-382 (version in free access).
• Joint review of Denis Arnold (ed.), The Ethics of Global Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Stephen Gardiner, A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change (Oxford University Press, 2011), Stephen Gardiner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson and Henry Shue (eds.), Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford University Press, 2010), and Allen Thompson and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (eds.), Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future (MIT Press, 2012), in (2014) 3:1 Transnational Environmental Law 191-195 (version in free access).
• Whose ‘Loss and Damage’? Promoting the Agency of Beneficiary States (2014) 4(3-4) Climate Law 267-300.

On domestic and comparative climate law

• Case note: The State of the Netherlands v. Urgenda Foundation: Ruling of the Court of Appeal of The Hague (9 October 2018), (2019) 8(1) Transnational Environmental Law 167-192 (version in free access).
• Climate Change Mitigation in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (2017) 7(2-3) Climate Law 65-96.
• The Contribution of State-Owned Enterprises to Climate Change Mitigation in China  (co-authored with Mikko Rajavuori and Fang Meng) (2017) 7(2-3) Climate Law 97-124.
• Benoit Mayer and Mikko Rajavuori, “State Ownership and Climate Change Mitigation: Overcoming the Carbon Curse?” (2017) 11(3) Carbon and Climate Law Review 223-233.
• National Fossil Fuel Companies and Climate Change Mitigation under International Law (co-authored with Mikko Rajavuori) (2017) 44 Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce 55.
• Note on ECJ Case C-366/10, Air Transport Association of America and Others v. Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 21 December 2011, in (2012) 49:3 Common Market Law Review 1113-1140.

On climate migration

• Who are ‘climate refugees’? An inquiry into post-truth academic politics in Avidan Kent and Simon Behrman eds., Climate Refugees: Beyond the Legal Impasse? (Routledge, 2018)
• Definitions and Concepts in Robert McLeman and François Gemenne (eds), Routledge Handbook on Environmental Displacement and Migration (Routledge, forthcoming).
• (with Frédéric Mégret) ‘Climate Migration’ and the Security Council in Shirley Scott and Charlott Ku (eds), Climate Change and the Security Council (Edward Elgar, forthcoming).
• Migration in the UNFCCC Workstream on ‘Loss and Damage’: An Assessment of Alternative Framings and Conceivable Responses (2016) Transnational Environmental Law (forthcoming)  (version in free access).
• Climate Change, Migration and International Law in Southeast Asia in Koh Kheng Lian et al. (eds.), Climate Change Adaptation: ASEAN and the World (World Scientific, 2015), 337-358.
• Climate Migration and the Politics of Causal Attribution: A Case Study in Mongolia (2016) 5 Migration and Development 234 (version in free access).
• (with Christel Cournil) Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights: Towards Group-Specific Protection? in Ottavio Quirico and Mouloud Boumghar (eds.), Climate Change and Human Rights: an International Law Perspective (Routledge, 2015), 173-188.
• The Arbitrary Project of Protecting ‘Environmental Migrants’ in Robert McLeman, Jeanette Schade and Thomas Faist (eds.), Environmental Migration and Social Inequalities (Springer, 2016), 189-200.
• ‘Environmental Migration’ as Advocacy: Is It Going to Work? (2014) 29(2) Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees 27-41.
• The Rights of Mongolia’s Internal Migrants under International Law: Climatic, Domestic and Commercial Responsibilities (2014) 7(1) Journal of East Asia and International Law 197-219.
• Climate Migration Governance in Walter Leal, Harry Polo Diaz and Anirudh Singh (eds.), Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, vol. 2: Policy and Climate Change (Berlin: Springer, 2015), 828-838 (version in free access).
• Review of Michael R. Redclift and Marco Grasso, eds., Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2013), (2015) 5(1) Climate Law 95-98.
• Managing ‘Climate Migration’ in Mongolia: The Importance of Development Policies in Walter Leal (ed.), Managing Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region (Berlin: Springer, 2015), 191-204 (version in free access).
• (With François Crépeau) Changement climatique et droits de l’homme des migrants in Christel Cournil & Chloé Vlassopoulou (eds.), Migrations Environnementales : Gouvernance Mondiale et Expériences Locales, Contribution à l’Étude des Mobilités Humaines (Quae, 2015).
• Les migrations internes en Mongolie: Le climat, oui, mais pas seulement ! in Christel Cournil & Chloé Vlassopoulou (eds.), Migrations Environnementales : Gouvernance Mondiale et Expériences Locales, Contribution à l’Étude des Mobilités Humaines (Quae, 2015).
• Constructing Climate Migration as a Global Governance Issue: Essential Flaws in the Contemporary Literature (2013) 9:1 McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy 87-117.
• (With Ingrid Boas, Jackson Ewing, Alice Baillat & Uttam Kumar Das) Governing Environmentally-Related Migration in Bangladesh: Responsibilities, Security, and the Causality Problem (2013) 22:2 Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 177-198, reproduced in: Bishawjit Mallick and Benjamin Etzold, eds, Environment, Migration and Adaptation, Evidence and Politics of Climate Change in Bangladesh (Dhaka, Bangladesh: AHDPH, 2015) 231-248.
• Review of Rosemary Rayfuse and Shirley V. Scott, International Law in the Era of Climate Change (Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar, 2012), in (2013) 3(2) Asian Journal of International Law 416-417 (version in free access).
• Governing International Climate Change-Induced Migration in Lorraine Elliott (ed.), Climate Change, Migration and Human Security in Southeast Asia (Singapore: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, RSIS monograph No. 24, 2012) 28-45.
• Environmental Migration: Prospects for a Regional Governance in the Asia-Pacific Region (2013) 16(1) Asia-Pacific Journal of Environmental Law 77-103.
• Review of Andrew T. Guzman, Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), in (2014) 4 Climate Law 174-176.
• Environmental Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region: Could We Hang Out Sometime? (2013) 3(!) Asian Journal of International Law 101-135 (version in free access).
• Sustainable Development Law on Environmental Migration: The Story of an Obelisk, a Bag of Marbles and a Tapestry (2012) 14(2) Environmental Law Review 111-133.
• The International Legal Protection of Climate (or Environmental) Migrants: Fraternity, Responsibility and Sustainability in Michel Morin, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Fabien Gélinas and Markus Gehring (eds.), Responsibility, Fraternity and Sustainability in Law: In Memory of the Honourable Charles Doherty Gonthier (Markham, ON: LexisNexis Canada, 2012) 723 and (2012) 56 Supreme Court Law Review 723.
• Pour en finir avec la notion de ‘réfugiés environnementaux’: Critique d’une approche individualiste et homogène des déplacements causés par des changements environnementaux (2011) 7(1) McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy 33-58.
• The International Legal Challenges of Climate-induced Migration: Proposal for an International Legal Framework (2011) 22(3) Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 357-416.
• Review of James C. Hathaway and Michelle Foster, The Law of Refugee Status, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), (2015) 14(3) Chinese Journal of International Law 649-651.
• Review of Susan Ossman, Moving Matters: Paths of Serial Migration (Stanford University Press, 2013), in 16(3) Journal of International Migration and Integration 849 (2015).
• Review of Stephanie Wolfe, The Politics of Reparations and Apologies (New York: Springer, 2014), (2015) 13(2) Journal of International Criminal Justice 415
• Review of Susan F. Martin, Sanjula Weerasinghe and Abbie Taylor (eds.), Humanitarian Crises and Migration: Causes, Consequences and Responses (New York: Routledge, 2013), in (2015) 6 Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies 189-191.
• Review of Alexander Betts, Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Cornell University Press, 2013), in (2014) 27(2) Journal of Refugee Studies 301-302.
• Review of Etienne Piguet and Frank Laczko, People on the Move in a Changing Climate (Springer, 2014), in (2014) 23(3) Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 361-363.
• Review of Martin Ruhs, The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration (Princeton University Press, 2013), in (2014) 14(4) Human Rights Law Review 779-786.
• Review of Grant Dawson and Sonia Farber, Forcible Displacement Throughout the Ages, Towards an International Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Forcible Displacement (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012), in (2013) 11(4) Journal of International Criminal Justice 936-937.
• Review of UNHCR, The State of the World’s Refugees: In Search of Solidarity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), in (2014) 40(12) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2054-2055.
• Review of Alexander Betts, Global Migration Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), in (2012) 24(3) International Journal of Refugee Law 653-655.
• Review of Thomas N. Maloney and Kim Korinek (eds.), Migration in the 21st Century – Rights, Outcomes, and Policy (London and New York: Routledge, 2011), in (2012) 24(2) International Journal of Refugee Law 498-500.

On general international law

• Liability and Compensation for Marine Plastic Pollution: Conceptual Issues and Possible Ways Forward (2020) 114 AJIL Unbound 206-211 (with Sandrine Maljean-Dubois).
• Less-than-full Reparation in International Law (2017) Indian Journal of International Law 463-502.
• Advancing Peace and Respecting Basic Human Rights? A Narrow Moral Appraisal of International Law review essay based on Steven Ratner, The Thin Justice of International Law: A Moral Reckoning of the Law of Nations (Oxford University Press, 2015), in (2015) 8 Ethics and Global Politics.
• Review of Philipp Dann, The Law of Development Cooperation: A Comparative Analysis of the World Bank, the EU and Germany, (2015) 55 Indian Journal of International Law 451-453.
• Realizing Whose Utopia? The Structure of Normative International Law Arguments review of Antonio Cassese (ed.), Realizing Utopia: The Future of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2012), in (2014) 27 Leiden Journal of International Law 537-549 (version in free access).
• (With Prabhakar Singh) Thinking International Law Critically: One Attitude, Three Perspectives in Prabhakar Singh & Benoît Mayer (eds.), Critical International Law: Post-Realism, Post colonialism and Transnationalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
• Universalism v. Magic Circles: Human Rights’ Outsiders in Prabhakar Singh & Benoît Mayer (eds.), Critical International Law: Post-Realism, Post colonialism and Transnationalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
• Review of Daniela TEPE, The Myth about Global Civil Society: Domestic Politics to Ban Landmines (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), in (2014) 13(1) Chinese Journal of International Law 238-240.
• Review of Marko Milanovic, Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties (Oxford: Oxford University Press), in (2014) 16:1 International Community Law Review 139-145.
• (With Yvonne Wong) The World Bank’s Inspection Panel: A Tool for Accountability? (2014) 6 World Bank Legal Review.
• Review of Jeffrey L. Dunoff and Mark A. Pollack, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art (Cambridge University Press, 2013), in (2014) 4(1) Asian Journal of International Law 227-228.
• Review of Tae-Ung Baik, Emerging Regional Human Rights Systems in Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), in (2013) 6(1) Journal of East Asia and International Law 315-317.
• Development Is No Excuse for Human Rights Abuses: Framing the Responsibility of International Development Agencies (2014) 5(2) Trade, Law and Development 286-343.