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Professor Petra Minnerop's Outputs (46)

Nationally Determined Contributions post-Global Stocktake: The Making of Prescribed Qualified Unilateral Acts in International Law (2025)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P. (2025). Nationally Determined Contributions post-Global Stocktake: The Making of Prescribed Qualified Unilateral Acts in International Law. Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 58(1), 45-117

One of the core elements of the global response to climate change under the Paris Agreement are Parties’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Their self-determined nature is often perceived as a major weakness of the treaty regime. This Articl... Read More about Nationally Determined Contributions post-Global Stocktake: The Making of Prescribed Qualified Unilateral Acts in International Law.

Just Transitions in International Law (2024)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P., Carlarne, C. P., Slobodian, L., & Esty, D. C. (in press). Just Transitions in International Law. Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting,

Climate Causality: From Causation to Attribution (2024)
Book Chapter
Minnerop, P. Climate Causality: From Causation to Attribution. In M. Wewerinke-Singh, & S. Mead (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook on Climate Litigation. Cambridge University Press

Climate law and governance structures evolve through different instruments, in international, regional and domestic law and policy. A significant mode of development is jurisprudential. Courts often make authoritative statements not only about the la... Read More about Climate Causality: From Causation to Attribution.

Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations, and the Environmental Rule of Law (2023)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P. (2024). Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations, and the Environmental Rule of Law. Global Policy, 15(S5: Special Issue: Reflections on the Architecture of Climate Law), 20-41. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13219

This article argues that the protection of ‘community interests’ in international law includes intertemporal obligations of States, in cases where it is scientifically foreseeable that (fully) maintaining the ‘status quo’ of a protected community int... Read More about Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations, and the Environmental Rule of Law.

Law, justice and the role of courts in changing the social superstructure narrative in climate litigation: A Rejoinder to Benoit Mayer (2023)
Journal Article
Otto, F. E., Minnerop, P., Raju, E., Harrington, L. J., Stuart‐Smith, R. F., Boyd, E., James, R., Jones, R. G., & Lauta, K. C. (2023). Law, justice and the role of courts in changing the social superstructure narrative in climate litigation: A Rejoinder to Benoit Mayer. Global Policy, 14(2), 416-419. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13174

European Consensus as Integrative Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation: Joining Climate Science and International Law under the European Convention on Human Rights (2022)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P. (2023). European Consensus as Integrative Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation: Joining Climate Science and International Law under the European Convention on Human Rights. Berkeley journal of international law, 40(2), 207-262

The “European Consensus” is a key doctrine in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. It assists the Court in establishing an international human rights standards vis-à-vis a national margin of appreciation. This article argues that... Read More about European Consensus as Integrative Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation: Joining Climate Science and International Law under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Article VIII WTO Agreement, Status of the WTO (2022)
Book Chapter
Minnerop, P. (2022). Article VIII WTO Agreement, Status of the WTO. In P. T. Stoll, & H. Hestermeyer (Eds.), Institutions and Dispute Settlement. Brill Academic Publishers

Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The Role of the social Superstructure Narrative (2022)
Journal Article
Otto, F. E., Minnerop, P., Raju, E., Harrington, L. J., Stuart-Smith, R. F., Boyd, E., James, R., Jones, R., & Lauta, K. C. (2022). Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The Role of the social Superstructure Narrative. Global Policy, 13(5), 736-750. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13113

Climate litigation has become a strategic tool to push for climate justice, including compensation for losses caused by climate change. Many cases rely on the establishment of a causal relationship between the defendants’ emission of greenhouse gases... Read More about Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The Role of the social Superstructure Narrative.

In Search of a Fair Share: Article 112 Norwegian Constitution, International Law and an Emerging Inter-Jurisdictional Discourse in Climate Litigation (2021)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P., & Rostgaard, I. (2021). In Search of a Fair Share: Article 112 Norwegian Constitution, International Law and an Emerging Inter-Jurisdictional Discourse in Climate Litigation. Fordham international law journal, 44(4), 847-922

Climate change is a common sphere where an inter-jurisdictional judicial discourse gradually evolves. Engaging with the reasoning of other courts strengthens controversial judicial pronouncements in a complex area of law and it reduces the risk of be... Read More about In Search of a Fair Share: Article 112 Norwegian Constitution, International Law and an Emerging Inter-Jurisdictional Discourse in Climate Litigation.

The Advance Interference-Like Effect of Climate Targets: Fundamental Rights, Intergenerational Equity and the German Federal Constitutional Court (2021)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P. (2022). The Advance Interference-Like Effect of Climate Targets: Fundamental Rights, Intergenerational Equity and the German Federal Constitutional Court. Journal of Environmental Law, 34(1), 135-162. https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqab041

Some climate lawsuits qualify as landmark cases, because they either mark an unexpected turning point in environmental jurisprudence, or they introduce a new conceptual analysis of the law vis-à-vis the global challenge of climate change. The decisio... Read More about The Advance Interference-Like Effect of Climate Targets: Fundamental Rights, Intergenerational Equity and the German Federal Constitutional Court.

Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation (2021)
Journal Article
Stuart-Smith, R. F., Otto, F. E., Saad, A. I., Lisi, G., Minnerop, P., Cedervall, K., van Zwieten, K., & Wetzer, T. (2021). Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation. Nature Climate Change, 11, 651-655. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01086-7

Lawsuits concerning the impacts of climate change make causal claims about the effect of defendants’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on plaintiffs and have proliferated around the world. Plaintiffs have sought, inter alia, compensation for climate-rel... Read More about Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation.

Internal Development Law (2019)
Book
Minnerop, P., Wolfrum, R., & Lachenmann, F. (Eds.). (2019). Internal Development Law. Oxford University Press