Directory of Scholars

MARKUS GEHRING

DR JUR (HAMBURG), LL.M. (YALE), MA (CANTAB)
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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Primary Research Interests

  • Climate change law
  • Corporate environmental responsibility
  • Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)
  • Energy law
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Environmental politics
  • Financial & investment issues
  • International environmental law
  • Regional environmental law (eg European Union)
  • Trade law & the environment

Secondary Research Interests

  • Constitutional law and the environment
  • Science & risk in environmental regulation

Selected Publications

  • World Trade Law in Practice (with M.C. Cordonier Segger & Jarrod Hepburn), London, Globe Business Publishing, 2006.
  • Sustainable Development in World Trade Law, (ed. with M.C. Cordonier Segger), The Hague, Kluwer Law International, 2005.
  • “Sustainable impact assessments of trade liberalization” in WTO Secretariat, 2006 WTO Public Forum – What WTO for the XXIst Century, Geneva, WTO Secretariat 2007, p. 197.
  • “Sustainable Development and Trade” in D. Armstrong, Handbook of International Law, London, Routledge Publishers, forthcoming.
  • “Common but Differential Responsibility in International law” and “Sanctions in International law” in P. Cane & J. Conaghan The New Oxford Companion in Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • “Implementing the Kyoto Protocol in Canada and the UK: A Discussion of the Economic Instruments Employed” (with K. Price), in C. P. M. Waters, ed., British and Canadian Perspectives on International Law, Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff, 2006, 255 - 274.
  • “The Canadian Experience with Kyoto Mechanisms” (with B. Chambers), in D. Freestone & C. Streck, eds., Making Kyoto Work: Legal Aspects of Implementing the Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • “Sustainable Developments in International Competition Law” in M.C. Cordonier Segger & C. G. Weeramantry, eds., Sustainable Justice: Reconciling Economic, Social and Environmental Law, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 2004, p. 121 – 134.
  • “Environmental Protection” (with A. Stone Sweet), in The Judicial Construction of Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 199 - 233.
  • “Counting Credits: Emissions Reductions Registries as a First Step towards Climate Change Regimes in North America?”, in M.C. Cordonier Segger & C. G. Weeramantry, eds., Sustainable Justice: Reconciling Economic, Social and Environmental Law, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 2004, p. 285 – 300.
  • Export Credits and Foreign Investment Insurances for Sustainable Development?, Yearbook of European Environmental Law, Oxford, OUP, 2008, forthcoming.
  • Emission Trading: Lessons from SO2 and NOx Emission Allowance and Credit Systems – Legal Nature, Title, Transfer and Taxation of Emission Allowances and Credits (with C. Streck), 35 (2005) Environmental Law Reporter 10220.