The Law focuses on controlling pollution and depletion of natural resources within a framework of sustainable development. As a branch of Public International Law, it governs a plethora of problems that arise between states; population, biodiversity, climate change, ozone depletion, toxic and hazardous substances, air, land, sea and transboundary water pollution, conservation of marine resources, desertification, and nuclear damage.

Areas of Interest:

• Jurisdictional and Institutional Aspects of Environmental Governance
• State Responsibility for Environmental Damage
• Civil Liability Regimes
• Environmental Dispute Resolution
• Human Right and the Environment
• Protection of the Marine Environment
• General Principles of Conservation and Biological Diversity
• Management of Hazardous Substances and Wastes
• Climate Change Protection
• Protection of the Ozone Layer
• Trade and Environment
• Financial Resources, Technology and Intellectual Property
• War and Armed Conflict in relation to the Environment
• Nuclear Energy and the Environment
• Freshwater Resources
• Transboundary Air Pollution
• Polar Regions