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Transnational Energy Law Regimes and Systems Dynamics: Calibrating Finance Mechanisms of the International Renewable Energy Agency and the Energy Charter Treaty

April 13, 2023 | 2:00 – 3:00PM CT

Katrina F. Kuh
Katrina F. Kuh

Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, Pace University

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Topic

Avoiding Performative Climate Justice

Abstract This chapter first sketches the contours of precommitment strategies by identifying examples of precommitment strategies in existing climate change law and contrasting them with other approaches for advancing justice that are not binding, automatic, and early, and thus would not be considered precommitments.  It then contemplates whether and why binding, automatic, and early precommitments to justice may be an important strategy to advance justice goals in anticipation of and at high levels of warming.  It concludes by analyzing the use of precommitments to justice in the context of the expedited siting and construction of renewable energy infrastructure. Bio Katrina Fischer Kuh joined the Elisabeth Haub School of Law faculty as the Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law in 2017.  She was previously on the faculty at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, where she was a Professor of Law and served as an Associate Dean of Intellectual Life.  Professor Kuh’s scholarship focuses on climate change and sustainability and she has taught Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, Administrative Law, and Torts.  She is the co-editor of The Law of Adaptation to Climate Change: United States and International Aspects.

Before entering academia, Professor Kuh worked in the environmental and litigation practice groups in the New York office of Arnold & Porter LLP and served as an advisor on natural resource policy in the United States Senate.  She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale and served as a law clerk to Judge Charles S. Haight of the District Court for the Southern District of New York and Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Publication

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=826081

Profile

https://law.pace.edu/faculty/katrina-fischer-kuh