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Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is an Affiliated Fellow of the Centre, Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) in Montreal, Canada, and Chief of the Environment and Sustainable Development Law Program of the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO) in Rome, Italy. She serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of Chile Faculty of Law, as co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Series of Volumes on Implementing Treaties on Sustainable Development, and as Senior Research Director for Sustainable Prosperity, a policy research network on the Green Economy. Through the CISDL and the IDLO, Marie-Claire provides legal advice on the implementation of international sustainable development treaties to the United Nations and to governments in Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas. She serves on the Board of the International Law Association (Canadian Branch), on ILA’s Committee on International Law on Sustainable Development, and on the CD Gonthier Legacy Commission. She also chairs the International Law on Sustainable Development Partnership under the auspices of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, is a Councillor of the World Future Council, and lectures in several universities around the world. She has authored or edited over eighty publications, including fourteen books in three languages such as: Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (Kluwer Law International, 2010) and Sustainable Development in World Trade Law (Kluwer Law International, 2005) with Dr M. Gehring; Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Practices and Prospects (Oxford University Press, 2004) with A. Khalfan; and Sustainable Justice: Reconciling Economic, Social and Environmental Law (Martinus Nijhoff, 2004) with H. E. Judge C.G. Weeramantry. Her present research focuses on sustainable development in global and regional trade and investment law, international law on climate change, legal preparedness for the green economy, legal aspects of sustainable use of biodiversity and natural resources, and questions of law, governance and inter-actional regimes.
Email: mccs2@cam.ac.uk
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