In addition, Baine will also help organize project events and coordinate the Sci-Lex Forum.

Translating Climate Science for International Law

Baine recently received his PhD from Utrecht University. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Climate Obligations for International Shipping. It consisted of four scholarly articles where Baine used international institutional law as a framework to identify what the International Maritime Organization and states must do to prevent and reduce climate pollution from the international shipping sector. Baine has also researched the regulation of climate pollution from the international aviation sector and the environmental integrity of international carbon markets.

He has taught Public International Law, coached moot court teams, and guest lectured in various courses. Baine was a visiting researcher at the Oxford University Faculty of Law and the University of Copenhagen Center for Climate Change Law and Governance.

Prior to joining academia, Baine was a Deputy Attorney General in Los Angeles, where he litigated environmental and land use cases on behalf of California agencies and officials. He is licensed to practice law in California and is admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and United States District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California. He holds an LL.M from Utrecht University, a J.D. from UCLA School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Vassar College.