Ursula Brunner Lecture Series

On 14 May 2024, Prof. Dr. Christina Voigt will join us for the sixth Ursula Brunner Lecture. 

Christina Voigt @ University of Oslo

More information on this lecture, including the flyer and programme, can be found here.

On 22 September 2023, Prof. Dr. Lavanya Rajamani joined us for the fifth Ursula Brunner Lecture. The event took place in English. Prof. Rajamani spoke about 'Future-proofing the UN Climate Regime in a Rapidly Warming World'.

Lavanya Rajamani @ University of Oxford

More information can be found here (PDF, 308 KB).

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On 25 April 2023, Prof. Dr. Jutta Brunnée joined us for the forth Ursula Brunner Lecture. The event took place in German. Prof. Brunnée spoke about 'Völkerrecht und Klimaschutz: Am Abgrund?', and Prof. Dr. Helen Keller commented. 

Jutta Brunnée @ University of Toronto

More information can be found here (PDF, 301 KB).

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On 8 November 2022, at 18:15, Prof. Dr. Surabhi Ranganathan joined us for the third Ursula Brunner Lecture (Room RAA-G-01, Raemistrasse 59, 8001 Zurich). The lecture concerned the topic of 'The Ocean in the Time of Climate Crises'. 

Surabhi Ranganathan @ University of Cambridge

More information can be found here (PDF, 382 KB)

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On 29 March 2022, at 18:15, Prof. Dr. Christoph Rehmann-Sutter joined us for the second Ursula Brunner Lecture (Room RAA-G-01, Rämistrasse 59). The lecture concerned the topic of 'Contemporanous and Asynchronous Climate Justice: Political Ethics in the Biosphere'. 

Christoph Rehmann-Sutter @University of Lübeck

More information can be found here

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We are proud to announce that the Inaugural event of the Brunner Lecture Series, entitled 'Civil Disobedience Amid the Climate Crisis', was held on 16 November 2021 at 18h15 at the University of Zurich (RAA-G-15).

This lecture featured interventions by Prof. Dr. Erica Chenoweth (Harvard), Prof. Dr. Sonia Seneviratne (ETH Zurich) and Georg Klingler Heiligtag (Greenpeace). More information on the event is available here.

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The Ursula Brunner Lecture Series was initiated in 2021 by Prof. Dr. Helen Keller, Prof. Dr. Johannes Reich, and Dr. Corina Heri in honour of the late Dr. Ursula Brunner († 2019), a distinguished lawyer and legal academic who contributed prolifically to the development of environmental law in Switzerland. The lecture series is dedicated to the relationship between environmental law and human rights, especially in the context of the climate crisis. Aiming at a multidisciplinary perspective, we invite distinguished speakers to share their views on some of the most pressing issues in the field to which the lecture series is devoted.

More information on the overall lecture series is available here.