Event notice: Contemporary and Asynchronous Climate Justice

Ursula Brunner Lecture (in German) with Prof. Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (Universität zu Lübeck)

The second Ursula Brunner Lecture will concern the topic of 'Contemporary and Asynchronous Climate Justice: Political Ethics in the Biosphere'. Prof. Rehmann-Sutter will discuss global warming as a phenomenon caused predominantly by industrialized nations, which however disproportionately affects people living in the global South. To continue or even simply to allow this process represents an injustice, as does the privileging of those alive today at the expense of future generations. In his criticism of John Rawls' conception of political justice, Amartya Sen insists that there is no need for an indisputable ideal of 'just' conditions to be able to recognize injustice (as a deviation from justice) and to fight for a change in societal structures. This same argument can be made in the context of climate policy. Prof. Rehmann-Sutter will argue that, in order to counter both dimensions of injustice, we need a new terrestrial ethics that incorporates a post-colonial perspective.

This event will take place on 29 March 2022 at 18.15 in the auditorium RAA-G-15

Ursula Brunner Lectures

Agenda

All our Research Lunches take place on Thursdays from 12.30-13.30 at RAI-D-017.

Former speakers

Spring Semester 2022

24.02.2022		Research Lunch Dr. Christina Neier (UZH) Solidarität zwischen Gliedstaaten: Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung eines föderalen Grundprinzips des Bundesstaates und der Europäischen Union
24.03.2022		Research Lunch Prof. Dr. Jan Klabbers (Helsinki) 12.30 -13.30 in RAI-D-017 A Brave New World: International Organizations under International Law No research lunch due to illness of the speaker.
29.03.2022		Ursula Brunner Lecture Series Prof. Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (Universität zu Lübeck) "Kontemporäre und asynchrone Klimagerechtigkeit: politische Ethik in der Biosphäre" Aula RAA-G-15 more information to the events
28.04.2022		Research Lunch Prof. Dr. Robert Kolb (Genf) 12.30 - 13.30 in RAI-D-017 Prozessieren vor dem IGH: Aktuelle Entwicklungen
03.05.2022		Dietrich Schindler Lectures Prof. Oona Hathaway (Yale) "The Internationalists" 18.30 - 19.45 in KOL-G-201 Dietrich Schindler Lectures
12.05.2022		Research Lunch Prof. Dr. Urs Saxer (UZH) Russlands Ukraine-Krieg: Herausforderungen für eine fragmentierte Kommunikationsordnung 12.30 - 13.30 in RAI-D-017
19.05.2022		Research Lunch Dr. Christoph Krenn (MPIL/UZH) Die andere Transformation: Der Bedeutungszuwachs des österreichischen Verfassungsgerichtshofs und des schweizerischen Bundesgerichts in vergleichender Perspektive 12.30 - 13.30 in RAI-D-017
02.06.2022		Research Lunch Prof. Dr. Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton) Does EU Law Require Member States to be Democracies? 12.30 - 13.30 in RAI-D-017
20.09.2022		Dietrich Schindler Lectures Prof. Anne Orford (Melbourne) "Populist international law" 18.15 - 19.30 in RAA-G-01 Dietrich Schindler Lectures