Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli
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Dr Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Environmental Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, and a member of its Centre for Climate Law & Governance. She is a public international lawyer, with primary research interests in environmental, climate and energy law. Her scholarship covers the international duties of states relative to environmental protection, the global legal implications of the clean energy transition and the role of citizens’ assemblies in the making of climate law. She is the author of The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and the co-editor (with Veerle Heyvaert) of the Research Handbook on Transnational Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2020).
She joins the Paris IAS in May 2024 for a one-month writing residency.
Research Interests
International and transnational environmental law, environmental principles, climate and energy law and policy, public participation, deliberative democracy
Reimagining Climate Legislation: Citizens’ Assemblies and the Making of Environmental Law
The project offers a conceptual account of the relationship between citizens’ assemblies on climate change (‘climate assemblies’) and the law. While global legislative activity on climate change has increased, it has not been matched with increased quality in climate action. With the commitment to achieving net zero by all parties to the Paris Agreement, there is a significant legislative challenge to align legal systems with the Paris objectives. Against this backdrop, citizens’ assemblies, mini-publics which bring together citizens representative of a country’s society to debate and advise on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, have recently gained popularity in Europe.
The project explores three research questions: (i) how should the relationship between climate assemblies, the state and the law be conceptualised?; (ii) how do citizens’ assemblies accommodate the complexity of climate law-making, including the need to pay due consideration to the other and the future?; (iii) how do climate assemblies and their members perceive, understand and use law? To respond to these questions, the project combines doctrinal legal analysis, legal and political theory, and an empirical analysis of the twelve nation-wide assemblies held so far on climate change. In doing so, it investigates an innovative, yet realistic, new governance tool, with the potential not just reshape the law but also change our imaginary of the law and its making.
Key publications
Re-imagining the Making of Climate Law and Policy in Citizens’ Assemblies, (2022) 11(2) Transnational Environmental Law, p. 235-261
International Law: A Discipline of Ambition, (2023) 36(2) Leiden Journal of International Law, p. 233-249
The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
 New session of the "Paris IAS Ideas" online talk series, with the participation of Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli King’s College, UK / Paris IAS Fellow. |
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