IG on the European and International Rule of Law | Webinar Series | 23 September 2026
The ESIL Interest Group on the European and International Rule of Law
is hosting
ESIL Interest Group on International and European Rule of Law Webinar Series
From Environmental Law in Context to Comparative Environmental Governance: Justice, Sustainability, and the Rule of Law
23 September 2026
10:00–11:30 a.m. Central Time / 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Online via Zoom
ABOUT THE WEBINAR
This webinar brings into dialogue two important recent books:
Rebecca Bratspies and Carmen G. Gonzalez, Teaching Environmental Law in Context (Edward Elgar, 2026)
and
Tseming Yang, Anastasia Telesetsky, and Sara K. Phillips, eds., Comparative Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2025).
The conversation will examine how environmental law should be understood, compared, taught, and transformed amid accelerating climate change, ecological degradation, widening inequality, energy transition, and institutional and regulatory change.
Bringing the two books together creates an opportunity to explore the relationship between comparison and context in environmental governance and to consider questions involving environmental justice, comparative legal methodology, legal education, scientific and Indigenous knowledge, human rights, rights of nature, climate and energy governance, natural resources, regulatory accountability, and Global South perspectives.
Mekonnen Ayano, University at Buffalo School of Law, and Chinonso Tansi Anozie, University of Houston Law Center, will serve as discussants.
The webinar will be chaired and moderated by Paolo Davide Farah, University of Tulsa College of Law and Chair of the ESIL Interest Group on European and International Rule of Law, who will also participate as a discussant.
At the center of the conversation is a fundamental rule-of-law question:
How can environmental legal systems remain legitimate, accountable, inclusive, and capable of responding to rapidly changing ecological and social conditions while addressing the unequal distribution of environmental harms, benefits, knowledge, expertise, and decision-making power?
Participation is free and open to all, but advance registration is required and can be found here.
More information, including the detailed event description, speakers’ biographies, and a selected bibliography, is available here
The event is co-sponsored by the American Branch of the International Law Association Committee on International Law, China, and the Reconfiguration of the Global Order and the International Law Association Study Group on International Law, Global Challenges, and the Impact of Emerging Powers on Global Governance.
