Science, Technology, Policy and International Law

Justo Corti Varela is an associate professor of public international law and international relations at the National University of Distance Education (Spain) and the deputy dean of the School of Law and is responsible of the Quality and Innovation Policy of the faculty. Qualified in Spanish and in Argentina law, he is a member of the Bar in both countries. Previously, he has been a senior fellow and EU project manager at the Royal Institute for European Studies (Madrid), a visiting professor of Université de Nanterre (Paris 10), a postdoctoral researcher at CNRS (Paris), a visiting scholar at the University College London and at Scoula Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa), and a member of the judicial office in several jurisdictions. He obtained a PhD in law summa cum laude under the supervision of Prof. Gil Carlos Rodriguez Iglesias, former president of the European Court of Justice (between 1994 and 2003). He also holds an LLM in EU law by Complutense University (Spain), and an LLB in law by the National University of Littoral (Argentina). He holds a Jean Monnet Module on European Climate Law and leads as the main researcher a national project on climate migrations, awarded by the Spanish Research Agency, coordinating a multidisciplinary research team, including biologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and lawyers. As project manager of the Royal Institute for European Studies, he coordinated eight European projects involving universities and research teams from United States, United Kingdom, China, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Brazil, and Argentina, organizing events, coordinating publications, and managing a multilingual and multicultural research staff. His areas of expertise research are global governance, European and international economic and environmental law, and the new technologies international regulation. Being a leading expert in biotechnological regulation since his PhD, much more recently, he has been involved in the regulation of the climate transition, studying the interactions of rules and proceedings at national, European, and international levels and how they impact on the most vulnerable people. Energy security, climate migrations, climate justice (and injustices), and the new perspectives of the role of law for managing the Anthropocene era are part of his recent interests, pushing his research to a much more holistic vision of societal problems linked to climate change. He has produced two monographs, seven books, and more than 50 chapters, articles, and working papers written in English, French, and Spanish and published with international publishers. He is a member of the board of the Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo (Ministry of Presidency, Spain) and the chair of the interest group on bio-law at the European Society of International Law. He teaches at the Diplomatic School of Spain (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and gives advice, regularly, to national and international institutions on his areas of expertise. Paolo Davide Farah is a full professor at West Virginia University, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics; founder and director of the West Virginia University, Energy Justice and Just Transition Lab; and founder and coordinator of the Eberly College Interdisciplinary Research Collaborative on Global Challenges and Local Response Initiatives. He is a visiting professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law; the founder, president, director, principal investigator, and senior research fellow at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom); an "internationally renowned professor/distinguished professor of law" (full professor level) at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), Law School, Beijing, China; and a senior research fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL), Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA. He is tea...