Examination Fellowship 2025

Applications may now be made to sit the examinations to be held on 24-25 September 2025.
The Fellowships by Examination will be tenable from November 2025.
Further information can be found here.

 

Closing date: Monday, 11 August 2025, 4pm (UK time).

30th May 2025

Visiting Fellowships 2026-27

Applications may now be made for Visiting Fellowships at All Souls College tenable for one or more terms during the academic year October 2026 to June 2027. Further information may be found here.

Closing date: Monday 1 September 2025, 4pm (UK time).

30th May 2025

Legal Interests in a World of Climate Change Conference

4th June 2025, 8:30 am - 5:45 pm

Old Library, All Souls College

Register here to attend 

 

Law alone cannot solve the climate emergency, but what opportunities are there for law and litigation to contribute to the globally fair, urgent, far-reaching response that the world needs? You are invited to join our speakers from a wide range of disciplines as they address the interaction between international and domestic law, politics and science in responding to the climate crisis.

This event is held in association with the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, as part of the Oxford Local Programme of events themed around climate change, human rights, and climate justice.
 

Right Here Right Now Summit

Agenda:

08.30 – 09.00 Coffee, tea and pastries

09:00 – 09.05 Welcome from the organisers

09.05 – 10:30 Session One – International laws and national interests 
This session will discuss the challenges involved in ensuring that States have the political will to take rapid and far-reaching action to combat climate change, and the tensions between effective action and competing short-term political interests. It will also consider the role of strategic litigation and the part which smaller States can play in bringing about change. 
Jeff Colgan, Stuart Delery, Lavanya Rajamani and [Representative of the Government of Vanuatu]

10:30 – 11:00 Morning coffee

11.00 – 12.30 Session Two – Making the science legible 
In this session, a panel of scientists with experience of communicating to non-scientific audiences will consider how best to make the science of climate change clear and accessible to the public, including to lawyers, courts and others involved in the process of litigating and debating climate change laws. 
Myles Allen, Rupert Stuart-Smith, Srikanth Toppaladoddi

12:30 – 13.30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Session Three – Intergenerational justice 
This session will explore the role which the principle of intergenerational justice can and should play in shaping the legal and political response to climate change. Can the principle help to prevent today’s adults from making future generations face disproportionate burdens and risks? 
Simon Caney, Alison Macdonald, Valery Salas Flores

15:00 – 15:30 Tea and Coffee

15:30 – 17:00 Session Four – The interaction between international and national laws 
International courts and tribunals are considering a range of important cases on the legal obligations of States in relation to climate change. This session will examine the interaction between, on the one hand, the decisions of international courts, tribunals and treaty-monitoring bodies, and on the other, the framework of domestic laws in individual States. How should States go about implementing their international obligations, as set out in the decisions of international courts and tribunals and other sources of international law? 
Andrew Gilmour, Harj Narulla, Jessica Simor

17.00 – 17.45 Session Five – Fireside chat: the international judge’s perspective 
This session will involve an informal conversation examining the challenges, from the perspective of an international judge, which arise in the context of climate change litigation. 
Tomas Heidar in conversation with Alison Macdonald

17.45 Concluding remarks

 

List of speakers

Myles Allen, Professor of Geosystem Science, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford

Simon Caney, Professor of Political Theory, University of Warwick

Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Climate Solutions Lab at the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs, Brown University

Stuart Delery, Partner, Gibson Dunn; former White House Counsel to President Biden

Andrew Gilmour, Former UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights

Tomas Heidar, President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

Alison Macdonald KC, All Souls College, Oxford; Essex Court Chambers, London

Harj Narulla, Doughty Street Chambers, London; Visiting Senior Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics.

Lavanya Rajamani, Professor of International Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford; Yamani Fellow in Public International Law, St Peter’s College, Oxford

Valery Salas Flores, MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford; Latin American Climate Movement, Peru

Jessica Simor KC, Matrix Chambers, London; counsel for the Applicants in Klimaseniorinnen v Switzerland before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights

Rupert Stuart-Smith, Senior Research Associate in Climate Science and the Law, Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, University of Oxford

Srikanth Toppalododdi, Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds

 

Event organised by Ross Anderson, Wolfgang Ernst, Alison Macdonald and Miriam Meyerhoff, All Souls College, Oxford

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If you have any difficulties please email mailto:medhistsem@history.ox.ac.uk

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