CSIL Friedmann Conference: Professor Cymie Paine - An Overview of the United Nations Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
Cymie Payne, a professor at Rutgers Law, will be discussing the United Nations Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity on Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction and her involvement in its negotiation.
Associate Professor, teaching in the Department of Human Ecology and the School of Law. She studies global governance of the environment and natural resources and the evolution of international law, with a focus on the ocean, climate change, and protection of the environment in relation to armed conflict. She has represented the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; acted as expert on environmental reparations in the International Court of Justice case Certain Activities (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua); and participated in the UN negotiation of the High Seas Biodiversity Treaty.