Outputs

• Margaret Young, Dan Parker and Stanislav Roudavski, ‘Visualisation of the Advisory Opinion on Climate by the International Court of Justice’, VerfBlog, 2025/11/05, now published in Maria Antonia Tigre, Maxim Bönnemann & Antoine De Spiegeleir (eds) The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change (2025, Verfassungsbooks) 123-126
• Margaret Young, ‘Systemic Integration of Obligations in an Era of Climate Change: Stability and Optimal Control’ (2025) British Yearbook of International Law (Advance Article)
• Margaret Young, ‘The International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion on climate obligations’ (2025) 39:7&8 Australian Environment Review 114-120
• Margaret Young, ‘Systemic Integration, the Law of the Sea, and Courts: Constraints and Opportunities for Ocean Governance’ in Justin Alger and U. Rashid Sumaila (eds) A Research Agenda for Sustainable Ocean Governance (Edward Elgar, 2025) 121-134
• Margaret Young, ‘Systemic Integration of Obligations in an Era of Climate Change: Stability and Optimal Control’ (February 26, 2025). U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 971
• Margaret Young and Markus Gehring, ‘The Climate Regime and Other Areas of Law’ (2023) 13 Climate Law 151-61
• Margaret Young, ‘Implementing International Law: Capacity-Building, Coordination and Control’ (2023) 12(1) Cambridge International Law Journal 4-23
• Margaret Young, ‘Strengthening Capacity in Ocean Governance’ (2023) 8 Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy 5-24
• Douglas Guilfoyle, Don Rothwell and Margaret Young, ‘James Crawford: His Legacy and Impact on International Law in Australia and Globally’ (2023) 40:1 Australian Year Book of International Law 25-45
• Margaret Young, ‘Judge James Crawford AC SC, International Court of Justice: In Memoriam Tribute’ (2022) 36 Ocean Yearbook xiv-xvii
• Margaret Young, ‘Fisheries’ in Daniel Bethlehem, Don McRae, Rodney Neufeld and Isabelle Van Damme (eds), The Oxford Handbook on International Trade Law (OUP, 2nd edition) (2022) 817-837

• Margaret Young, Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb and Karen Scott, ‘The 2025 United Nations Oceans Conference – Reflections on Proposed Actions to Sustainably Use the Oceans’ (20 August 2025) (IILAH event co-hosted with ILA (Australian branch), ANZSIL and MCF)
• Margaret Young, EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 37: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Obligations: Remarkable, Radical and Robust (31 July 2025)
• Melbourne Climate Futures, ‘Climate Talks: From Land to Sea: Forests, oceans and biodiversity at the COPs’ (Margaret Young, Dirk Nemitz and Brendan Wintle’ (9 July 2025)
• Fleur Ramsay and Stewart Motha, hosted by Margaret Young, ‘Climate Justice and Insurgent Lawyering in the ICJ and Beyond’ Melbourne Law School (2 April 2025)
• Margaret Young, Jacqueline Peel, Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb and Janine Felson, ‘ITLOS' Climate Opinion: What's its significance?’ MCF Discussion Paper (2024)
• Harro van Asselt, chaired by Margaret Young, ‘Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Under International Law: Why and How?’ Melbourne Law School (13 December 2024)
• Margaret Young, ‘The role of human rights law in climate obligations’ (2024) and see here for interview on ABC TV
  (3 December 2024)
• Kathleen Auld, chaired by Margaret Young ‘The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies: Have We Achieved the Coveted 'Triple Win'?’ Melbourne Law School (6 November 2024)
• James Bacchus, Ujal Singh Bhatia, Umberto Celli Junior, Dominic Marie-Paule Coppens, Jennifer A Hillman, Nicolas JS Lockhart, Makane Moise Mbengue, Dan Bondi Ogolla, Nilufer Oral, Jacqueline Peel, Tianbao Qin, Jan Yves Remy, Justice David Unterhalter, Van den Bossche, Peter Leo Henri, Jorge E Viñuales, Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Margaret Young, Elena Cima, Carolyn Deere Birkbeck, Christophe Bellmann, Principles of International Law Relevant for Consideration in the Design and Implementation of Trade-Related Climate Measures and Policies. Report of an International Legal Expert Group (13 September 2023) Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs (TESS), Geneva
• Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb and Margaret Young, ‘Could the law of the sea be used to protect small island states from climate change?’ The Conversation (25 July 2023)
• Margaret Young, Jacqueline Peel, Erin O’Donnell, Dylan Victor Jnr Asafo Webinars Around The Earth: Why do we need Green Rights? (Australia, 10 May 2022)

• Webinar, The Evolving Climate Jurisprudence under UNCLOS through International Institutions, American Society of International Law, 6 November 2025 (Professor Dr Bimal N. Patel, International Law Commission; Ms Ximena Hinrichs Oyarce, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; Professor Margaret A. Young, The University of Melbourne; Dr Liu Nengye (moderator), Associate Professor, Singapore Management University). Co-sponsored by the ASIL Law of The Sea Interest Group, Rashtriya Raksha University, and Singapore Management University. For a pre-recorded excerpt of Professor Margaret A. Young’s presentation (22 minutes), see The Evolving Climate Jurisprudence under UNCLOS through International Institutions: The International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion
• Webinar: The ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion: A Turning Point for Climate Justice from the World Court, IUCN WCEL, 22 August 2025 (Grethel Aguilar, Director General IUCN; Christina Voigt, University of Oslo / Chair IUCN WCEL; Caroline Foster, University of Auckland; Margaret Young, University of Melbourne; Nilufer Oral, National University of Singapore / IUCN WCEL Steering Committee member; Corina Heri, Tilburg University; Harro van Asselt, University of Cambridge; Ana Kantzelis, Six Pump Court Chambers; chaired by Francesco Sindico, University of Strathclyde)
• Discussion: The ICJ's Climate Advisory Opinion: Initial Reflections and Responses, the University of Melbourne, 31 Jul 2025 (Margaret Young, Jacqueline Peel, Rohan Nanthakumar and Dylan Asafo)
• UN WebTV: Watch the delivery of the ICJ Advisory Opinion of 23 July 2025
• Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture 2024 by Nilufer Oral, ‘International Law and the Multilateral System in Face of Climate Change and Threats to the Ocean’, (with Introduction from Margaret Young) Melbourne Law School, 19 September 2024
• UN WebTV: Watch the opening of the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference of 9 June 2025 (Nice, France)
• IILAH and MCLE seminar, Harro van Asselt, ‘Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Under International Law: Why and How?’ (with Introduction from Margaret Young) Melbourne Law School, 13 December 2024

The project has developed a visualisation of the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Obligations.

The full data story is published here: Margaret A. Young, Dan Parker and Stanislav Roudavski: Visualisation of the Advisory Opinion on Climate by the International Court of Justice, VerfBlog, 2025/11/05, DOI: 10.17176/20251106-141946-0.

A presentation by Margaret A. Young of the slides on 6 November 2025 is here (for further information, see Videos (selected)).

A reproduction of the animated slides (without the accompanying narrative) is provided below.