30 Apr Journal of Environmental Law workshop
On 16 and 17 of April, Inês participated in a workshop organised by the Journal of Environmental Law and hosted by Edinburgh Law School. Titled New Challenges of Environmental Law: from carbon removals to AI, the workshop brought together leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to explore emerging challenges in environmental law.
The programme focused on how legal frameworks are responding to rapidly evolving environmental and technological developments. Across five thematic panels and interdisciplinary sessions, participants examined cutting-edge issues such as carbon dioxide removal, the environmental footprint of artificial intelligence, energy system transformations, and ecological governance. Contributions drew on a wide range of disciplines – including law, geoscience, policy, and data science – creating a genuinely cross-disciplinary forum for debate.
During the workshop, Inês presented a draft paper titled “From Efficiency to Sufficiency Through Circularity: The case of sustainable housing in California”. The discussion that followed offered valuable and constructive feedback, which will support the further development of the article for journal submission.
Beyond the panels, the workshop offered an excellent opportunity to engage with frontier research, recent regulatory developments, and the evolving role of law in governing technological and environmental transformation, as well as to promote the work being developing within the DELaw project.
