Category: Research Article
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The Trade System and Climate Action: Ways Forward Under the Paris Agreement
A journal article surveying post-Paris pathways to align trade rules and climate measures, addressing legal space for border measures, subsidies, standards, and dispute prevention through regime coherence.
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The Comparative Law of Climate Change: A Research Agenda
This RECIEL article proposes a comparative law research program for climate change, framing legal method as a tool to infer shared understandings, diagnose barriers and drivers, and support policy design and transfer across jurisdictions.
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Linking Carbon Markets: Concepts, Case Studies and Pathways
Article assessing barriers and pathways for linking cap-and-trade systems, comparing forms of linkage and implementation timeframes across emerging schemes to lower costs while preserving environmental integrity.
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Linking Existing and Proposed GHG Emissions Trading Schemes in North America
Article analyzing prospects for linking North American trading schemes, comparing design features, unilateral credit recognition, and governance constraints shaping feasible pathways for cross-border market integration.
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Mechanisms for Linking Emissions Trading Schemes
A Climate Policy article specifying legal and institutional mechanisms for linking emissions trading systems, comparing implementation options for unilateral, reciprocal, and truly bilateral linking, and assessing how the choice of linking mechanism affects liquidity, integrity, and efficiency.
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From Autonomy to Integration? International Law, Free Trade and the Environment
International law article reassessing trade-environment reconciliation after the Shrimp/Turtle decisions, analyzing fragmentation and systemic integration, and differentiating normative relationships between WTO law, general international law, and environmental law.
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Global Climate Change and the Fragmentation of International Law
A Law & Policy article examining how climate change accelerates fragmentation across international legal regimes, assessing coordination challenges and proposing interpretive and institutional strategies to manage overlaps and conflicts.
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Breathing Life into the Carbon Market: Legal Frameworks of Emissions Trading in Europe
Research article analyzing the legal framework of the EU ETS, focusing on allocation, compliance infrastructure, and institutional design choices that shape market credibility and environmental performance.
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Bridging the Transatlantic Divide: Legal Aspects of a Link between Regional Carbon Markets in Europe and the United States
Article evaluating legal pathways to link EU and U.S. regional carbon markets, detailing compatibility requirements, mutual recognition options, and governance structures to manage cross-system integrity.
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Dispelling the Chimera of ‘Self-Contained Regimes’ International Law and the WTO
This article, in the European Journal of International Law, interrogates fragmentation debates through WTO practice, showing how trade adjudication both acknowledges and resists systemic integration, and cautioning against facile claims of the existence of ‘self-contained regimes’.