International Law and the 'Mis-anthropocene': Responding to the Geoengineering Challenge

The 5th Annual Douglas M. Johnston Ocean Governance Lecture presented by Prof. Karen Scott, University of Canterbury, New Zealand on Oct. 30, 2013.

Karen N. Scott is a Professor in Law at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She researches and teaches in the areas of international environmental law, law of the sea and Antarctic law and policy. She has published widely in these fields in journals such as the Michigan Journal of International Law, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the Melbourne Journal of International Law and the Yearbook of International Environmental Law. She has recently co-edited (with Alan D. Hemmings and Donald R. Rothwell) a collection entitled Antarctic Security in the Twenty-first Century: Legal and Policy Perspectives (Routledge, 2012). Between 2009 and 2012 she was the General Editor of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law. She is currently the Vice-President of Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law.