Authors: William C. G. Burns, Hari M. Osofsky
ISBN-13: 9780521879705, ISBN-10: 0521879701
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Dr Wil Burns is currently a Senior Fellow with the Center for Global Law & Policy at the Santa Clara University School of Law. Additionally, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy and Co-Chair of the International Environmental Law Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association. He received his B.S. in Political Science from Bradley University and his Ph.D. in International Law from the University of Wales-Cardiff School of Law. Prior to his academic career, he spent more than twenty years in the non-governmental sector, including as Executive Director of the GreenLife Society/Pacific Center for International Studies, a think tank that focused on implementation of international wildlife law. He has published more than 70 articles in a range of law, policy, and science journals, including the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Global Change, and he has served as the co-editor of three books.
Hari Osofsky is an associate professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law. She received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. She currently is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. She has taught at the University of Oregon School of Law, Whittier Law School, Loyola Law School-Los Angeles, and Vermont Law School. Her articles have been published in a variety of journals, including the Washington University Law Quarterly, Villanova Law Review, Chicago Journal of International Law, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Stanford Journal of International Law, and Yale Journal of International Law. Her advocacy work has included assisting with Earthjustice's annual submissions to the U.N. Human Rights Commission on environmental rights and with the Inuit Circumpolar Conference's petition on climate change to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She also has served as an advisor to the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) on climate change litigation.
This book examines lawsuits over climate change that have been brought around the world.