Policy and Law to Protect People and the Environment from a Changing Climate

Duke Law faculty conduct research that shapes climate policy domestically and internationally. Their work often anchors symposia and conferences that engage policymakers and academic peers globally.

Duke Law scholarship in 2023-24 included:

• The evolution of international climate policies by Jonathan Wiener (Duke Law) and Tyler Felgenhauer (Duke Center on Risk).
• U.S.-Canada collaboration on marine migratory species conservation (workshop report) by Michelle Nowlin and Stephen Roady.
• How climate change influences corporate board practices, researched by Yaron Nili.
• Training graduate students to tackle global sustainability challenges
  by Michelle Nowlin (Duke Law), Zoie Taylor Diana (Nicholas School of the Environment), Nishad Jayasundara (Nicholas School of the Environment), Daniel Rittschof (Nicholas School of the Environment), and Jon Virdin (Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability)
• International business law Professor Timothy Meyer:
  • The role of production and consumption in climate policyInternational trade policy and sustainability“Second-generation” trade policies that address the environmental and social costs of trade liberalization
  • Global trade and climate adaptation
• Senior lecturing fellow in law Monica Iyer:
  • Climate migration and human rights protections
  • The right to stay amid climate threats,
  • Advancing migrant rights through environmental protection