Jorge Viñuales
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Jorge E. Viñuales holds the Harold Samuel Chair at Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre. He is also the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Distributive Justice newly established by the Institut de Droit International. The analogy with Neruda’s writings is borrowed from the editorial ‘How We Forget’ (2018) 564 Nature 162. This short piece draws upon a forthcoming volume edited by the author: J. E. Viñuales (ed.), The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50. An Assessment of the Fundamental Principles of International Law (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in September 2020).
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The Forgotten Constitution: The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50
April 23, 2020
Jorge Viñuales
In the middle of a crisis, and of confinement, one is naturally drawn either to keep focussed on (very) short term events or to daydream about the very longue durée. Between these two extremes of the ‘micro’ and the ‘macro’, there is a sizeable ‘mesoscopic’ timescale, and within it a specific decade that we, international lawyers, have all…
The Paris Climate Agreement: An Initial Examination (Part III of III)
February 8, 2016
Jorge Viñuales
Editor's Note: This is the last post in a series (see Part I and Part II) featuring Professor Jorge Viñuales' analysis of the landmark December 2015 Paris Agreement. Professor Viñuales is the Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law and the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy,…
The Paris Climate Agreement: An Initial Examination (Part II of III)
February 8, 2016
Jorge Viñuales
Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of three posts that continues Professor Jorge Viñuales' analysis of the landmark December 2015 Paris Agreement. Professor Viñuales is the Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law and the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG).
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The Forgotten Constitution: The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50
April 23, 2020
Jorge Viñuales
In the middle of a crisis, and of confinement, one is naturally drawn either to keep focussed on (very) short term events or to daydream about the very longue durée. Between these two extremes of the ‘micro’ and the ‘macro’, there is a sizeable ‘mesoscopic’ timescale, and within it a specific decade that we, international lawyers, have all…
The Paris Climate Agreement: An Initial Examination (Part I of III)
February 7, 2016
Jorge Viñuales
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of three posts analyzing the landmark December 2015 Paris Agreement, authored by Professor Jorge Viñuales, the Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law and the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). Less is…
The Paris Climate Agreement: An Initial Examination (Part II of III)
February 8, 2016
Jorge Viñuales
Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of three posts that continues Professor Jorge Viñuales' analysis of the landmark December 2015 Paris Agreement. Professor Viñuales is the Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law and the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG).