Conference programme

Programme

Thursday, 11 April 2024
Room: RAA-G-01 | University of Zurich | Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich

13:30

Registration
Room: RAA-G-01

14:00

Welcome

Prof. Dr. Thomas Gächter
Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Zurich

Introduction to the conference and the ten scenarios

Prof. Dr. Helen Keller
University of Zurich

Dr. Corina Heri
University of Zurich

14:30-15:45

Keynote panel: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modelling and Valuing Climate Change-related Harms

• Prof. Dr. Sonia Seneviratne
  ETH Zürich
• Prof. Dr. Pierre D’Argent
  University of Louvain

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Johannes Reich (University of Zurich)

This opening reflection will take the form of a Q&A session between the panellists and the moderator. As an alternative to a classic keynote format, the participants will be asked a series of questions inviting them to sketch their disciplinary perspectives on the conference topic, and tease out shared difficulties concerning the valuation and reparation of loss and damage related to climate change.

15:45-16:15

Coffee break
To be held in the lobby of the RAA building.

16:15-17:45

Panel 1 (formerly panel 3) – Intra- and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Valuations of Loss and Damage

• Francesca Leucci
  Wageningen University
• Prof. Dr. Alberto Monti
  IUSS Pavia
• Prof. Arden Rowell
  University of Illinois
• Atie Babaie
  University of Basel

Moderator: Dr. Viktoriya Gurash (University of Zurich)

Link to all ten Scenarios

17:45-18:10

Comfort break

18:10-19:40

Panel 2 – Litigating for Legislative Change: Possibilities, Experiences, Pitfalls (including Litigation Risk, Strategies, and the Financial Dimension of Climate Litigation)

• Dr. Jannika Jahn
  Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
• April Williamson
  Climate Litigation Network
• Dr. Charlotte Blattner
  University of Bern

Moderator: Dr. Hazhar Jamali (University of Zurich)

Link to Scenarios 1, 2, 5, 6 and 10

20:00

Conference dinner

Friday, 12 April 2024

Room: RAA-G-01 | University of Zurich | Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich

9:00-10:30

Panel 3 (formerly panel 1) – Remedial Possibilities in International (Human Rights) Law

• Dr. Juan Auz (IACtHR)
  Tilburg University
• Dr. Jason Rudall (ICJ)
  Leiden University
• Dr. Yusra Suedi (ICJ)
  University of Manchester

Moderator: Dr. Corina Heri (University of Zurich)

Link to Scenarios 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 10

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Panel 4 – Monetarization and/or Climate Justice: Critical Legal and Non-legal Perspectives on Remedies and Implementation

• Dr. Usha Natarajan
  Yale University
• Dr. Linnea Nordlander
  University of Copenhagen
• Dr. Sara L. Seck
  Dalhousie University

Moderator: Pranav Ganesan (University of Zurich)

Link to all ten Scenarios

12:30-14:00

Lunch

To be held in the lobby of the RAA building

14:00-15:30

Panel 5 – Corporate Liability for Climate Change

• Prof. Dr. Valentin Jentsch
  University of St. Gallen
• Prof. Dr. Josephine van Zeben
  Wageningen University
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Hinteregger
  University of Graz

Moderator: Judge Larisa Alwin (Amsterdam Court of Appeal)

Link to Scenarios 3, 7 and 9

15:30-16:30

Synthesis (in the form of a debate)

Prof. Dr. Karen Alter
Northwestern University

Prof. Dr. Helen Keller
University of Zurich

16:30-17:00

Conclusion and publication plans

Dr. Corina Heri
University of Zurich