Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy, University of Cambridge.
Professor Jorge Viñuales holds the Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge, where he founded the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG).
His work spans international environmental law, energy law and interdisciplinary research on complexity economics, sustainability policy and integrated modelling, with publications in leading academic presses and journals.
He has extensive experience advising governments, organisations, investors and companies on strategic, policy and governance matters arising from the sustainability transition. His expertise has informed projects such as Turkey’s implementation of the Paris Agreement, analyses of carbon border adjustment measures for a multinational software company, ESG and sustainable-finance guidance for an AI-specialised hedge fund, and climate-finance advice for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on COVID-19. He has also advised NGOs on fossil fuel investment obligations, served as arbitrator or counsel in major investment disputes, and chaired a UN Committee overseeing the policies of 27 states.
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The International Law of Energy (opens in a new tab), September 2022, Cambridge University Press.
International Environmental Law (opens in a new tab) (with Pierre-Marie Dupuy), 2018, Cambridge University Press.
The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50: An Assessment of the Fundamental Principles of International Law (opens in a new tab) (Jorge Viñuales, ed), September 2020, Cambridge University Press.
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law (opens in a new tab), May 2019, Oxford University Press.
‘Legal theories of liability for climate harm (opens in a new tab),’ Groupe d’études géopolitiques.
Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge; founder and former Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG).
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