Call for Papers: Climate Law Compliance: Cases and Theory

Climate Law Compliance: Cases and Theory, a new peer-reviewed series published by IOS Press, has issued the following call for papers:

Climate Law Compliance: Cases and Theory is a new peer-reviewed series published by IOS Press, Amsterdam. It is the first scholarly journal dedicated to the range of issues that arise from the enforcement of climate-related obligations.

The journal is interested in state compliance with Kyoto commitments, including the case work of the Enforcement Branch under the Protocol’s Compliance Mechanism. This is only one area of interest, as the series will host discussions on compliance at both a more general level (e.g. relating to UNFCCC obligations) and a narrower one (compliance with regional obligations, such as EU mechanisms of legal accountability, compliance with decisions of the CDM EB, and so on).

In order to make climate compliance processes more accessible to a wider audience, each volume will consist of two parts. The first will be case-focused and will reproduce key original documents, such as decisions the Enforcement Branch, alongside independent expert commentary on the cases or specific disputes to which the documents relate. The second part will be devoted to scholarly articles on climate compliance matters generally, including theoretical pieces.

The series is edited by Alexander Zahar under the direction of an editorial board whose members are Steinar Andresen, Jutta Brunnée, Christian Downie, Michael G. Faure, David Freestone, Jon Hovi, René Lefeber, Gerhard Loibl, Larry MacFaul, Jan McDonald, Ronald B. Mitchell, Massimiliano Montini, Sebastian Oberthür, Jacqueline Peel, Marjan G.W.M. Peeters, Melissa A. Perry, Dane Ratliff, Dongli Sang, Olav Schram Stokke, Charlotte Streck, Geir Ulfstein, Jacob Werksman, and Farhana Yamin.

The first volume of the series is scheduled for publication in late 2009.

Climate Law Compliance: Cases and Theory is welcoming submissions of abstracts/ideas for case commentaries and articles, in-progress manuscripts for editorial opinion, and completed manuscripts for peer review (please submit to a.zahar@griffith.edu.au).

For further information, including queries about style and preparation of case commentaries and articles, please contact the editor at a.zahar@griffith.edu.au.