Professor Brian Havel, International Aviation Law Institute director and 2011-13 Keeley Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford, presented "A Clash of Law and Politics: the EU's Audacious Self-Appointment as the Global Regulator for Limiting Aviation Carbon Emissions" to Oxford's EU Law Discussion Group on November 21.
Professor Havel discussed whether the EU's unilateral application of its own Emissions Trading Scheme to the entire global air transport industry -- which produced a controversial supportive opinion by the EU Court of Justice and provoked outrage and threats of retaliation from key trade partners -- pushed the international community toward stronger remedial action. He also discussed whether the EU's political imperative of dealing with climate change should trump the prevailing structure of international legal relationships and force a fundamental rethinking of how international law responds to transborder systemic challenges.
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