The MSCA postdoctoral fellowship is awarded by the European Commission and includes all scientific fields. It is very competitive and this year received over 10,300 applications from across the world.

More about the project: International Law and Place (PLACE)

The project is concerned with how the international law of territory conceptualises the environment, and how an attention to ‘place’ could result in more precise and robust State obligations relating to climate change and environmental harm. It will consider how international law is engaging with a range of notions of ‘place’ beyond what arguably is possible within the international law of territory, and how it might be shaping the discipline in unacknowledged ways. The project will attend to various moment when ‘territory’ and ‘place’ are evoked in relation to international law, including the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and the ILC open-ended working group on Sea-level rise. It aims to explore and develop place as an conceptual frame alongside that of territory, all whilst furthering our understanding of how territory frames the response to climate change under international law.