News and Events

Public Lecture
From Hamburg to The Hague: Climate Change, Advisory Opinions and the Call of Small Island States
HE Dr Eselealofa Apinelu,  Tuvalu High Commissioner to Fiji (introduced by Margaret Young)

Discussion
The 2025 United Nations Oceans Conference – Reflections on Proposed Actions to Sustainably Use the Oceans (Margaret Young, Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb and Karen Scott)

Seminar
‘The ICJ's Climate Advisory Opinion: Initial Reflections and Responses’ (Margaret Young, Jacqueline Peel, Rohan Nanthakumar and Dylan Asafo) Melbourne Law School

Conference paper presentation
‘Food from the High Seas: Law, Trade and the Blue Economy’ (Margaret Young and Rohan Nanthakumar) at conference, ‘Seeking Sustainability: Food, Trade, Work and Environment’ University of Auckland (online attendance)

Capacity-building Workshop
Margaret Young supported the three-day workshop on ‘Global Ocean Governance’ at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). See here for further details.

Side-event
‘Bridging Law and Practice: Advancing Ocean Governance through Legal Capacity, Regulatory Frameworks, and Institutional Partnerships’ (Loren Atkins, Francois Bailet, Adelsia Coelho, Remi Moncel and Margaret Young), UN Oceans Conference, Nice, France

Side-event
‘Global Ocean Governance and Major Challenges for the Twenty-First Century’ Oceans, (Martin Ndende, Jean-Christophe Martin, Remi Moncel, Sarah Lelong, Julien Raynaut, Georges Mba Asseko, Jean Baptiste Harelimana, Eric Dibas-Franck (my topic: Climate and Biodiversity: Addressing the Overlapping Challenges’ Université Côte d'Azur

Panel
‘The High Seas Treaty and Its Implications for Global Governance’ at ‘Dili International Conference: Navigating Challenges: Law of the Sea and Maritime Dispute Settlement’ (Joanna Mossop, Xiangxin Xu, Rose Kautoke, Margaret Young with moderator Eran Sthoeger), Timor-Leste

Online Seminar
‘Systemic Integration, the Law of the Sea, and Courts: Constraints and Opportunities for Ocean Governance’ , ANZSIL OIELIG Seminar

Film premiere
‘White Rock’ premiere in Victoria, Australia (panel discussion with Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb, John Morrongiello and Margaret Young, in conversation with Stefan Andrews and Sahira Bell), University of Melbourne

Seminar
Margaret Young, ‘WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies’ ITLOS-Nippon Foundation Fellows, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Hamburg

Seminar
Harro van Asselt, ‘Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Under International Law: Why and How?’, Melbourne Law School

Side event
‘How can International Law Better Prepare us for Health Emergencies?’ (Lucas de Toca,  Jodie McVernon, Jonathan Liberman, Suman Majumdar and Margaret Young) Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Annual Conference, Melbourne

Conference paper presentation
Margaret Young, ‘The Advisory Opinion requests on climate change obligations: systemic integration of which common intentions?’ Frontiers in Environmental Law, University of Queensland

Seminar
Elisa Morgera, ‘The role of environment-and-human-rights law researchers in transdisciplinarity’, Melbourne Law School

Seminar
Margaret Young, ‘Climate Change Mitigation and Free Trade Agreements’ (Office for International Law, Attorney-General’s Department, Canberra

Panelist (online)
‘Brackish: towards a methodology for the co production of ethnographic, legal and design knowledge for the pluriverse’ for 2023 Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, UK (with Vanessa Grotti, Marc Brightman and Stanislav Roudavski)

Reading group
IILAH Reading Group 2023: Ocean, Climate and the Law
(convened by Margaret Young and Lauren Nishimura, Melbourne Law School, Start date 23 August 2023; Semester 2 duration)

Seminar
Margaret Young, ‘The Blue Economy: Legal Issues relating to Climate Change and Marine Pollution’ (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra)

Webinar
Margaret Young, ‘Advisory Opinion request to the International Court of Justice’, International Law Association (Australian branch) (with Natalie Klein)

Plenary speech for ICON-S Annual Conference
"Islands and Ocean: Public Law in a Plural World": Margaret Young, ‘Plural Responses to the Climate Crisis’, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Conference paper presentation
Margaret Young, ‘Climate and Marine Justice in the Blue Economy’, ICON-S Annual Conference, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Conference paper presentation
Margaret Young, ‘Net Zero Emissions and the Free Trade Agreeement (FTA) between the United Kingdom and Australia, ANZSIL Annual conference, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand