It was a busy summer for the PEL program with many visitors to host and trainings to facilitate. One enjoyable highlight was our seminar on Judicial Remedies for Environmental Harm. For two weeks in August, PEL hosted a delegation of … Continue reading →

Each spring, U.S.-Asia Partnerships for Environmental Law (PEL) Associate Director Yanmei Lin teaches a course in Comparative Environmental Law Research. This year, Professor Lin’s students Amanda Carrington (JD ’19) and XinXin Wang (LLM ’18) teamed up to explore the emerging … Continue reading →

Over the past ten years Cambodia has invested heavily in hydropower and coal electric generation to meet growing power demands resulting from the nation’s electrification priorities. Cambodia eagerly pursued hydropower development because its rivers offer an estimated power potential of … Continue reading →

  On April 6th, 2018 PEL’s two research associates for the spring semester presented on the progress of their papers; highlighting key lessons and challenges in researching law in China. We applaud them for their diligent efforts and are excited to share … Continue reading →

Author: Sheng Sun (PEL Fellow) For a long time nation-states were considered “too big for the small problems and too small for the big problems” in public international law and governance, and therefore to some extent have been displaced by … Continue reading →

Elephant poaching in Africa has declined steadily over the last 5 years, according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)[1]. However, global illegal ivory trade is the highest it has been in 6 years, even despite a … Continue reading →

Working together with ClientEarth and the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPC), PEL supported a training on Environmental Adjudication for 138 Chinese Environmental Judges. The training, which was held at the National Judges College in Beijing from November 28 to … Continue reading →