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IN MEMORIAM

Svitlana Kravchenko (1949-2012)

With profound sadness, the IUCN Academy regrets to announce the untimely great loss of Professor Svitlana Kravchenko, Director of the LL.M. Program in Environmental and Natural Resources Law at the University of Oregon, U.S.A. Svitlana suffered a heart attack and passed away on Friday, February 10, in Eugene, Oregon. She is survived by her loving husband, Professor John Bonine, also a law professor at the University of Oregon; her dear daughter, Maria Kostytska (a lawyer in Paris, France) and her dear niece, Lena Kravchenko (Executive Director of Environment-People-Law in Lviv, Ukraine).

Svitlana was born in Potsdam, Germany and grew up in both the Russian Far East and Western Ukraine. Her father was a distinguished Soviet General in Ukraine, who became a well-known military judge. Her mother was a distinguished criminal judge who became a Justice of the Supreme Criminal Court of Ukraine during the time of the Soviet Union. Svitlana graduated from the Law Faculty of Lviv State University in 1972 and began her teaching career at her alma mater. She defended her first PhD dissertation at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in 1977 which focused on the problem of civil liability for environmental transgressions; and defended her 2nd and higher-level dissertation in 1991 on the problems associated with environmental law enforcement in Kharkiv. Prior to teaching at the University of Oregon Law School, Svitlana taught environmental law at Lviv National University in Ukraine for 25 years.

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Visiting IUCN Academy Scholar in Environmental Law at the University of Ottawa – January 2013 and January 2014

The University of Ottawa Faculty of Law invites scholars from the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law member institutions to apply to teach an environmental law course during the faculty’s January term sessions in 2013 and 2014.   We understand the busy schedules of scholars during teaching terms, we are therefore inviting applications to teach in either the January 2013 term or the January 2014 term at this time in order to assist interested scholars in planning their future teaching commitments.  Courses can be on any environmental law topic and can have a comparative, regional or international focus.

The IUCN Secretariat has been located at the Faculty of Law since 2006.   To further strengthen the Faculty’s link with the Academy’s member institutions, this teaching opportunity will be offered each year.

January term is a three week intensive session allowing students to immerse themselves in one subject only. Classes meet daily for three hours over the 13 day term. In addition to our own full time professors, the faculty brings in an outstanding group of lawyers, judges and visiting professors from law schools around the world. We have hosted visiting professors from Australia, France, Belgium, Iceland, England, Puerto Rico, Kenya, Mexico, India, Israel, the United States, South Africa, Burundi and Poland.  January term professors attend special lectures and January term social events. They form a special community of scholars.

Remuneration is $10,000 CAN with an additional $5,000 CAN to cover receipted travel and living expenses. Visiting professors must apply for visa and work permits as required.

Applications should be sent by March 15, 2012, directly to Vice Dean Professor Craig Forcese at Craig.Forcese@uottawa.ca, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, 57 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa Ontario Canada, K1N 6N5.

Applications should include an up-to-date C.V., a list of courses previously taught, a course description including teaching materials and the evaluation method, and a course outline or syllabus. Please also indicate the year that you apply to teach.  We will also ask you to identify two references, with contact numbers.

The University of Ottawa Faculty of Law welcomes this as an opportunity for its students and professors to be enriched by the participation of IUCN Academy scholars.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Winnie Carruth of the IUCN Academy Secretariat at iucnael@uottawa.ca.

FOURTH ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP PRIZES - 2012

Call for Nominations

The IUCN Academy recognizes that its member institutions are actively involved in advancing knowledge of environmental law through research on a wide range of topics from an array of perspectives. The Academy’s member law schools and their scholars frequently produce outstanding publications, organize conferences and undertake other scholarly activities of international significance. These scholarly activities directly promote the aims of the Academy.

The Academy introduced the annual scholarship prize competition to recognize outstanding publications and other scholarly achievements by individuals in its member institutions. A Scholarship Prizes Subcommittee of the Academy’s Research Committee oversees the competition.

This announcement details the criteria and procedure for nominating individuals for the scholarship prizes. The deadline for making nominations is 29 February 2012.

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The University of Ottawa Faculty of Law Scholarship in Environment and Sustainability 2012

The Scholarship was established as part of a generous donation of a friend (the Donor) of the University of Ottawa to assist the University’s commitment to supporting the goals of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. The Academy is an international network of law faculties and environmental law research centers with the common aim to actively engage in teaching and research in environmental law, whether at the local, national, regional or international level. The Secretariat of the Academy is located at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa.

Number of annual awards
One

Value of award
$15,000

Level of scholarship - Master’s or Doctoral students

The Scholarship will be available for one year to a master’s student or for two one-year periods for a doctoral student pursuing graduate studies at the University of Ottawa (not restricted to Law). The Scholarship will be awarded in accordance with the Donor’s non-exclusive preference that the Scholarship be used to support students from developing countries and from member institutions of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (for a list of member institutions, please consult the Academy’s website: www.iucnael.org).

Eligibility criteria

The applicant must demonstrate academic excellence and propose a suitable area of study that is generally consistent with the aims and objectives of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.

Application procedure

Applications must be sent to the Manager, Faculty Development, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section and include:

1. A copy of the applicant’s academic transcript.
2. A copy of the applicant’s curriculum vitae.
3. Two (2) typed letters of support from academic sources.
4. A letter from the applicant addressed to the Selection Committee and detailing the proposed program of study (research paper or thesis).

Application contact
Jason Murray
Manager, Faculty Development
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
57 Louis-Pasteur
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5
jmurra3@uOttawa.ca

Application deadline: March 1, 2012

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New UOttawa Scholarship in Environment and Sustainability

The IUCN Academy Secretariat announces the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law Scholarship in Environment and Sustainability for 2012.

The Scholarship was established as part of  donation to the University of Ottawa to assist the University’s commitment to supporting the goals of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. The Scholarship will be available for one year to a master’s student or for two one-year periods for a doctoral student pursuing graduate studies at the University of Ottawa (not restricted to Law).

The Scholarship will be awarded in accordance with the Donor’s non-exclusive preference that the Scholarship be used to support students from developing countries and from member institutions of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.

The deadline for applications for our second year is 1 March 2012. Details about application requirements and more information about the Law Faculty and the University of Ottawa are available at the link above.

Call For Paper/Presentation Abstracts

10th Annual Colloquium Of The

IUCN Academy Of Environmental Law

“GLOBAL Environmental

Law At A Crossroads”

July 1-5, 2012

The year 2012 will mark the 40th anniversary of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment and the 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit. But when world leaders gather for the UN's "Rio+20" conference next June, they will face an even more challenging climate than during their previous gatherings. Despite rising public concern for the environment, efforts to advance environmental governance are facing strong headwinds in the wake of the global financial crisis and the failure to reach consensus on a post-Kyoto response to climate change.

The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law has selected the theme "Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads" for its 10th Annual Colloquium, which will be held at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law from July 1-5, 2012. The Colloquium will bring together experts from all parts of the world to consider the future of environmental law and governance from a global perspective in the aftermath of the "Rio+20" Conference. In light of the breadth of the conference theme, the Colloquium organizers welcome abstracts for papers and/or presentations on a broad array of topics. These include: approaches for improving global environmental law and governance, how to overcome political resistance to sustainable development policies, new strategies for promoting environmental justice and using law to advance sustainability, where are we after Rio+20 and where we should be going from here. Papers may focus on strategies for addressing specific environmental problems, new developments in national and regional environmental law, and the interaction of international and domestic law and policy.

Potential authors and presenters are asked to submit one-page abstracts describing the topic they propose to address and summarizing their likely conclusions. Abstracts may be submitted via email to IUCNAEL2012.Papers@law.umaryland.edu. For more information concerning the Colloquium, please visit the University of Maryland website. The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 15, 2012.