Engaging with Harvard’s Global Scholars Academy on Linkages between Climate Change and Biodiversity Law

The Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy’s Global Scholars Academy is an intensive residential experience designed to enable junior faculty and post-doctoral scholars drawn from across the world to engage in sustained, interdisciplinary, peer-to-peer collaboration under the close mentorship of research faculty drawn from the world’s top universities. This year it was held in Stellenbosch in July 2024. It offered a unique interdisciplinary curriculum and included thematic minicourses, plenary lectures, round tables and writing workshops on a range of topics. Eighty junior faculty were selected to participate. Professor Sandy Paterson was invited to present an interactive round-table discussion titled the “Future of Climate Change Law – What is in it for Conservation”. The discussion, which brought an African-centered perspective, sought to introduce and engage participants on the broad range of issues falling within the scope of this topic.