Intersections of law and cooperative global climate governance challenges in the anthropocene
Date
2013-03
Authors
Ruppel, Oliver C.
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Publisher
Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
Abstract
Oliver C. Ruppel joined the Department of Mercantile
Law, Stellenbosch University (SU) as professor in January
2011. Until then he held one of the 14 prestigious Chairs in
the Academic Programme of the World Trade Organisation
(WTO), Geneva (Switzerland), which he established at
the Faculty of Law, University of Namibia in 2009. Prior to
this, in 2007, he was appointed to serve as Director of the
Human Rights and Documentation Centre, a national institute
established by statute under the Namibian Ministry of Justice
and the University of Namibia.
As the author of seven books, numerous articles in
international journals and other academic writings his
research focuses on international law and diplomacy, with a
particular focus on world trade law, regional integration policy,
sustainable development law and environmental law. At SU he
is in charge of the LLM modules on aspects of environmental
law and legal aspects of world and regional trade. He also
lectures as a Professor Extraordinaire at various institutions in
Africa and around the world. At present he also serves as AR5
Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) for the Chapter on Africa
in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), Working Group II.
Oliver obtained his undergraduate law degree after studies
at the Universities of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Munich
(Germany) where he also completed his training as legal
practitioner (Freiherr von Schuckmann Attorneys). He holds an
LLM (Stell), MM (Hagen), LLD (CU) and a PG Dip Int. Human
Rights Law (Finland). He is an International Arbitrator (FA Arb)
with the Association of Arbitrators of Southern Africa and a
Commercial Mediator (SCCM) with the Swiss Chamber for
Commercial Mediation, Zurich (Switzerland). He is a member
of the United Nations Environmental Programme’s (UNEP)
Association of University Lecturers, Nairobi (Kenya); the
IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Ottawa (Canada); the
Administrative Law Reform Commission, Ministry of Justice,
Windhoek (Namibia); the editorial board of NIELS Journal
of Environmental Law, Lagos (Nigeria); the editorial board of
Legal Perspectives on Global Challenges Series, The Hague
(Netherlands); the editorial board of Law and Constitution in
Africa, NOMOS (Germany); the Swiss (SSDI) and the South
African (SABILA) Branches of the Association for International
Law.
He is married to Dr Katharina Ruppel-Schlichting, who is also
a lawyer by profession. They have two daughters, Franziska
Freyja Nicolette (10) and Sophia Emma Antoinette (5).
Description
Inaugural lecture delivered on 19 March 2013
Keywords
Anthropocene, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects, Climate change mitigation, Climate change mitigation -- Economic aspects, Sustainable development -- Environmental aspects, Human security, Climate change -- Management -- International cooperation, Environmental law -- International cooperation