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LAURENCE BOISSON DE CHAZOURNES

PHD ON INTERNATIONAL LAW; BAR EXAM; JD AND MASTER DEGREE IN PRIVATE LAW
PROFESSOR

email laurence.boissondechazournes@unige.ch

Primary Research Interests

  • Enforcement & compliance issues
  • Environmental dispute resolution (litigation, mediation, etc)
  • International environmental law
  • Trade law & the environment
  • Water law

Secondary Research Interests

  • Alternative regulatory tools (eg voluntary codes and self-regulation)
  • Biodiversity law
  • Climate change law
  • Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)
  • Environmental ethics & justice
  • Financial & investment issues
  • Science & risk in environmental regulation

Selected Publications

  • "Trade, environment and biotechnology: on coexistence and coherence" (with M. M. Mbengue), in Genetic Engineering and the World Trade System – World Trade Forum, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008, pp. 205-245.
  • A propos du principe du soutien mutuel – Les relations entre le protocole de Cartagena et les accords de l'OMC – (with M. M. Mbengue), in Revue Générale de Droit International Public, n°4, 2007, pp. 829-862.
  • « A propos du caractère juridictionnel de la procédure de non-respect du Protocole de Kyoto » (with M. M. Mbengue) in : Sandrine Maljean Dubois et al (dir.), Changements climatiques : les enjeux du contrôle international, Paris, La Documentation Française, 2007, pp. 73-109.
  • Freshwater and International Economic Law, (with Edith Brown Weiss and Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder (éd.)), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, 512 p.
  • Protection internationale de l’environnement – Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée (with R. Desgagné, M. Mbengue et C. Romano), Paris, Pedone, 2005, 808p.
  • “The World Bank Inspection Panel: About Public Participation and Dispute Settlement", in Tullio Treves et al. (éd.), Civil Society, International Courts and Compliance Bodies, La Haye, TMC Asser Press, 2005, pp. 187-203.