Professor Jane McAdam part of international team awarded grant from the Research Council of Norway

Professor Jane McAdam and UNSW Law colleague Professor Rosemary Rayfuse are part of an international research team awarded a four-year grant by the Research Council of Norway. Entitled ‘Climate Change and Sea Level Rise in the Anthropocene: Challenges for International Law in the 21st Century’, the project will be led by Professor Davor Vidas of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo and will involve researchers from UNSW Law, the law faculties of the George Washington University in DC and the Autonomous University of Madrid, and the Department of Geology at the University of Leicester.

The grant will help to support Professor McAdam’s research on the impacts of climate change on migration and displacement from low-lying atoll countries, and the international legal frameworks required to facilitate movement in a dignified manner and ensure protection of the rights of those displaced. The project will feed into work being undertaken by the International Law Association Committee on International Law and Sea-Level Rise, of which Professor McAdam is Co-Rapporteur and Professor Rayfuse is a member.