Vanuatu is leading a global coalition to table a UN General Assembly Resolution asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to clarify the legal obligations for States, under existing international treaties, to do more to protect the planet from climate change. The vote for adoption by the UNGA is expected in mid-March.

Legal tools with the potential to catalyse the sustainability transition are gaining global traction, with other human rights related examples.

Viviana is a DPhil (PhD) candidate in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She is also a member of Nuffield College and a Clarendon Scholar. Before starting her DPhil Viviana completed an MPhil in Politics (Comparative Government) also at the University of Oxford, and a BA in Politics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Her main area of interest is political behaviour at the individual level, with a focus on corruption.

Scholars across the humanities and social sciences identify social norms and the dynamics

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Book launches of Collective Memory in International Relations by Dr Kathrin Bachleitner, University of Oxford, and Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations, 1949-1969 by Dr Lorena De Vita

Moderated by Prof. Todd Hall Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and the Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Prof. Stephen Blyth.