Faculty of Law
Klaus Bosselmann
Professor of Law
First and Second Legal State Examination (Germany)
Dr iur F.U. Berlin
Contact details
Building 810, room 735
1-11 Short Street
Auckland
Phone: +64 9 923 7827
Email: k.bosselmann@auckland.ac.nz
Available to students
Fridays 2 - 4pm or by appointment
Profile
Klaus Bosselmann has been teaching in the areas of public international law, European law, constitutional law, jurisprudence and comparative and international environmental law. His research focus is on the conceptual and international dimensions of environmental law and governance. He is particularly interested in sustainability ethics with respect to climate change, biodiversity, justice, human rights, legislation, democracy and international law.
Klaus has been the Director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law since its establishment in 1999. As Chair of the Ethics Specialist Group of the IUCN (The World Conservation Union) Commission on Environmental Law, he currently coordinates a number of international research collaborations in the area of sustainability law and governance. Klaus also has an active role in projects and annual conferences of the Global Ecological Integrity Group, a network of 250 environmental scholars. He has authored or edited 24 books on environmental law, political ecology, and sustainability law and governance; his numerous articles appeared in many of the world’s leading law journals. In 2009, he was the Inaugural Winner of the Senior Scholarship Prize of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, the global body of environmental law scholarship.
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Research Interests
- Environmental and Sustainable Development Law
- International and Comparative Environmental Law
- Public International Law and Global Governance
- Constitutional Law incl. Human Rights
- Legal Philosophy and Theory
Recent Books
Globalisation and Ecological Integrity in Science and International Law (co-edited with L.Westra and C.Soskolne), Cambridge Scholars Publ., Cambridge/UK, 2011, 495 pages;
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Globalisation-and-Ecological-Integrity-in-Science-and-International-Law1-4438-2734-7.htm
The Law and Politics of Sustainability (co-edited with D.Fogel and R.B.Ruhl), Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Berkshire Publ., Gt. Barrington/USA, 2011, 512 pages;
http://ww.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/product.asp?projid=80
The Earth Charter: A framework for global governance (co-edited with R.Engel), KIT Publ., Amsterdam/NL, 2010, 275 pages;
http://www.ecampus.com/book/9789460220937
Democracy, Ecological Integrity and International Law (co-edited with R.Engel and L.Westra), Cambridge Scholars Publ., Cambridge/UK, 2010, 520 pages;
http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Democracy--Ecological-Integrity-and-International-Law1-4438-1767-8.htm
Reconciling Human Existence and Ecological Integrity (co-edited with L. and R.Westra), Earthscan, London/UK, 2008, 351 pages;
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=4359
The Principle of Sustainability: Transforming Law and Governance, Ashgate Publ., Aldershot/UK, 2008, 242 pages;
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754673552
Governance for Sustainability - Issues, Challenges and Successes (together with R.Engel and P.Taylor), IUCN – The World Conservation Union, Environmental Law and Policy Series Vol.70, Bonn/Germany, 2008, 258 pages;
http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/governance_final_fur_web.pdf
Global Environment: Problems and Policies, Vol.4 (co-edited with K.Gupta and P.Mait), Atlantic Publ., New Delhi/India, 2008, 260 pages;
http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=PYO0UWQpIAC&pg=PA55&dq=klaus+bosselmann&hl=en&ei=waIZTeGhCIuCsQOJm4GjAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false
Recent Articles
“A Vulnerable Environment: Contextualizing Law with Sustainability”, Vol.2 No.1 Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 2011, 45-63;
“Sustainability and the Courts: A Journey Yet to Begin?”, (1) Journal of Court Innovation, 2011, 101-110;
“Towards Multilevel Governance for Sustainability: Trends and Challenges”, Contested Futures: Sustainability, Governance and International Human Rights, Europe – New Zealand Research Series Paper, 2010, 1-72;
“Losing the Forest for the Trees: Environmental reductionism in the law”, Environmental Laws and Sustainability, Special Issue of Sustainability 2(8), 2010, 2424-2448,
http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/8/2424/
