Directory of Scholars
OLIVER C. RUPPEL
LLB / LLM / LLD / PG DIPL PHIL / MASTER OF MEDIATION
SENIOR LECTURER IN LAW / DIRECTOR OF THE HRDC CENT
Primary Research Interests
- Climate change law
- Human rights & the environment
- Indigenous peoples & the environment
- Trade law & the environment
Secondary Research Interests
- Agricultural law (including soils)
- Constitutional law and the environment
- Criminal law & the environment
- Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)
- Energy law
- Environmental ethics & justice
- Environmental dispute resolution (litigation, mediation, etc)
- Environmental politics
- International environmental law
- Water law
Selected Publications
- OC Ruppel / C Roschmann / K Ruppel-Schlichting (2013) Climate Change: International Law and Global Governance. Legal Responses and Global Responsibility. Volume I. Baden-Baden: NOMOS Law Publishers.
- Ruppel OC/Ruppel-Schlichting K (2013) Environmental Law and Policy in Namibia. Second Fully Revised Edition. Windhoek: Orumbonde Press. Essen: Welwitschia Verlag Dr. A. Eckl. 567 pp. (http://www.environment-namibia.net/)
- Hinz MO/ Ruppel OC/Mapaure C (2012) Knowledge lives in the lake. Case studies in environmental and customary law from southern Africa. Windhoek: Namibia Scientific Society. 274 pp.
- Ruppel OC (2012) SADC Environmental Law and the Promotion of Sustainable Development. SADC Law Journal. Vol. II, No. 2, 2012 (http://www.sadclawjournal.org/modules/scribite/pnincludes/xinha/plugins/ExtendedFileManager/images/SADC_LAW_JOURNAL_VOL2_2012.pdf), 246-280.
- Ruppel OC/ Van Wyk S (2012) Climate Change Induced Movement of Persons in Africa: Human Rights Responses to Aspects of Human Security? South African Journal for Environmental Law and Policy. Vol. 18, No. 2, 2012: 49-64. Ruppel OC (2012)
- Climate change policy positions and related developments in the AU and SADC. SADC Law Journal. Vol. II, No. 1, 2012 (http://www.sadclawjournal.org/index.php?module=pages&func=display&pageid=9