19 January 2021
We want to explore and teach which changes are necessary in the global legal framework to support policy objectives such as those of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the European Green Deal (EGD) in particular. We also want to consider what is needed to foster sustainable socio-economic practices, more generally.Professor Ingo Venzke
An important and distinctive feature of this course will be that it also considers how parts of the current global legal framework in fact obstruct such objectives and practices. The SDGs or EGD are often considered to be primarily a matter of political will. However, in this course, the legal arrangements will be drawn out, especially of international economic law, to experience and show how they structure the spheres of possibilities within which the SDGs have to be fulfilled.
Professor Ingo Venzke brings in the expertise of economic law, theories of legal change, and global governance. Dr Andrea Leiter brings in expertise in law and development, as well as law and technology.
The UvA Sustainability Grant awards new teaching ideas in the field of green sustainability combined with related social sustainability aspects.