Directory of Scholars

WERNER SCHOLTZ

BA, LLB, (PU FOR CHE), DR. JUR. (LEIDEN UNIVERSITY)
PROFESSOR

email werner.scholtz@nwu.ac.za

Primary Research Interests

  • Climate change law
  • International environmental law
  • Regional environmental law (eg European Union)

Secondary Research Interests

  • Animal (welfare) law
  • Constitutional law and the environment
  • Environmental ethics & justice
  • Trade law & the environment

Selected Publications

  • Custodial Sovereignty: Reconciliation of Sovereignty and Global Environmental Challenges amongst the Vestiges of Colonialism, Netherlands International Review, 2008.
  • One Environment, Different Countries: a Discourse on Common but Differentiated Responsibilities, South African Yearbook of International Law, 2008.
  • Common heritage: Saving the Environment for Humankind or Exploiting Resources in the Name of Eco-Imperialism?, Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa, 2008.
  • Who Killed the S-words. A Discourse on Adaptation: Reconceiving International Environmental Law without Spawning Obsoleteness, Inaugural Publication, 2008.
  • Northern NGOs, Southern NGOs and International Environmental Law: The Common Interest of Humankind is the Interest of Northern Mankind!, South African Yearbook of International Law, 2007.