Join us for a research seminar with Professor Craig Martin from Washburn University, US.
Professor Martin will share insights from his research on Geoengineering Wars and Atmospheric Governance, a global issue affecting humans, non-humans, and ecosystems. Details about the event and speaker are provided below.
The seminar will take place on 10 December 2024 from 12:30 to 14:00 at Deakin Law School Boardroom, Deakin Burwood Campus, Building LC, Level 7.
Lunch will be served at 12:30, and the talk will commence shortly thereafter.
For catering purposes, please indicate in your RSVP if you will attend in-person and provide any dietary requirements.
Your participation is appreciated.
Abstract
Efforts to mitigate climate change are failing, as we overshoot temperature targets under the Paris Agreement. Thus, the attraction of solar radiation modification (SRM) to moderate temperature, with stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) being the easiest and cheapest form.
There is limited international law and institutions to constrain SAI, and the risk of unilateral SAI efforts is high and increasing. But SAI will cause significant harms unequally across regions, and will be viewed by some states as a risk to national and international peace and security.
An underappreciated risk related to unilateral SAI efforts is the use of force to prevent such action, and thus armed conflict. We explain how the jus ad bellum regime will not likely constrain such conflict. We thus explain and advocate the need for robust global governance to constrain unilateral SAI.
The project speaks to protection against technology-based harms, organized violence, and even inequity.
Speaker
Craig Martin is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the International and Comparative Law Center at Washburn University School of Law in the United States.
His scholarship has focused on the related legal systems that govern the different aspects of the use of force and armed conflict—namely, the jus ad bellum regime, international humanitarian law, and constitutional war powers.
More recently, he has been exploring issues at the intersection of climate change and international peace and security. He has also written on individual rights, both in comparative constitutional law (primarily Anglo-American and Japanese law) and international human rights law.
He teaches public international law, the law of armed conflict, international climate change law, international human rights, and comparative constitutional law.
Martin studied at the Royal Military College of Canada (B.A.), the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (J.D.), Osaka University, Graduate School of Law and Politics (LL.M.), and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (S.J.D.).
He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Perry World House, and at the University of Amsterdam Center for International Law.
He served as a naval officer in the Canadian Armed Forces after graduating from RMC, and practiced law in Toronto for several years before returning to the academy.
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