Summary: Law and Climate Change Seminar Series   

17 Dec 2024

This past Michaelmas Term, the Centre for Climate Engagement hosted the first four events of the inaugural Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis. Developed by University of Cambridge Hatton Professor of Climate Law, Harro van Asselt, the series aims to showcase how climate change interacts with specific areas of law, setting out both how legal fields are being impacted by climate change and how the law can help drive climate action.  

The events focused on a range of legal topics and featured a diverse array of speakers from political scientists to public and private law practitioners. This term’s speakers and events were: 

  • Richard Lazarus on Constitutional Law and Climate Change 
  • Simon Holmes on Competition Law and Climate Change 
  • Lauge Poulsen on International Investment Law and Climate Change   
  • Ruth Keating on Planning Law and Climate Change 

Key takeaways from each of the first four seminars are provided in this summary. 

Together with the CCE, the Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis is co-hosted by Cambridge Zero, the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), the Cambridge Climate Society, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and the Cambridge University Law Society – whom we thank for their support in delivering a wonderful term of events.