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Duvic Paoli

Dr Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli

Deputy Director, Centre for Climate Law & Governance

  • Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law

Research interests

  • Law

Biography

Dr Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law and the Deputy Director of its Climate Law & Governance Centre.

Leslie-Anne is a public international lawyer, with research interests in environmental, climate and energy law. Her scholarship covers the ambiguous role played by environmental principles, the global legal implications of the clean energy transition and the role of citizens' assemblies in the making of climate law and policy. She is the author of The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and the co-editor (with Veerle Heyvaert) of the Research Handbook on Transnational Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2020). 

Leslie-Anne has worked closely with policy and law-makers in the context of inter alia the role of environmental principles post-Brexit, the Global Pact for the Environment, UNFCCC negotiations, the climate citizens' assembly in France and the UK's third Climate Change Risk Assessment evidence report.

Leslie-Anne is a Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), and an Editor of the journal Transnational Environmental Law. In 2020/2021, she was a Fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, as the Sorbonne University 'Major Societal Changes' Chair. She has also held visiting teaching and research positions at the Graduate Institute Geneva, the University of Geneva, ESADE Law School and the University of New South Wales. She is the Project Leader of the Platform on International Energy Governance, a network of excellence that fosters the conduct of research in unexplored areas of international energy governance. Before joining King’s College London in 2017, she was Philomathia Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge.

Leslie-Anne holds Master’s degrees in international relations / political science from Sciences Po Paris and in public law from the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a PhD (summa cum laude) in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Tedx talk 

On 25 July 2023, Dr Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli presented a TEDx talk and asks the question: 'Will citizens' assemblies save the planet?'(View on Youtube).

Research Interests

  • Public international law
  • Environmental law (international, transnational)
  • Environmental principles
  • Energy democratisation
  • Climate citizens’ assemblies

Teaching

  • Public international law (LLB)
  • Environmental law (LLB)
  • Global law of climate change (LLM) 

PURE profile 

For more information on Dr Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli's research, visit her research portal.

News

The climate crisis is intimately linked to identity and politics, hears latest podcast episode

The latest episode of the ‘COP26: we got this’ podcast explores why political stances around the world vary so widely and how to overcome division when it...

Delegates at the climate summit in Paris, 2015

Events

28NovIn Conversation with Justice Pain Courts and  Environmental Crisis

In Conversation with Justice Pain: Courts and the Environmental Crisis

Join us for an intimate evening of conversation with the longest serving judge on the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, Justice Nicola Pain.

Please note: this event has passed.

21OctRestorative Justice Tarkine Forest Tasmania 780x440 AdobeStock_298639209

Restorative Justice for the Environment – coming to a court near you?

Justice Nicola Pain, Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, Australia, will discuss her experiences of how restorative justice works in a criminal...

Please note: this event has passed.

02FebBlue background with the King's logo and the text: "King's Business School. King's Climate Action Network. Sustainability Research Interdisciplinary Challenge. Wednesday 2 February 2022, 14.00-16.30. Bush House Auditorium (Hybrid Event). Open to King's faculty, researchers and PhD students"

Sustainability Interdisciplinary Research Forum

This hybrid event will showcase sustainability research across King's and explore how interdisciplinary research can be strengthened.

Please note: this event has passed.

News

The climate crisis is intimately linked to identity and politics, hears latest podcast episode

The latest episode of the ‘COP26: we got this’ podcast explores why political stances around the world vary so widely and how to overcome division when it...

Delegates at the climate summit in Paris, 2015

Events

28NovIn Conversation with Justice Pain Courts and  Environmental Crisis

In Conversation with Justice Pain: Courts and the Environmental Crisis

Join us for an intimate evening of conversation with the longest serving judge on the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, Justice Nicola Pain.

Please note: this event has passed.

21OctRestorative Justice Tarkine Forest Tasmania 780x440 AdobeStock_298639209

Restorative Justice for the Environment – coming to a court near you?

Justice Nicola Pain, Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, Australia, will discuss her experiences of how restorative justice works in a criminal...

Please note: this event has passed.

02FebBlue background with the King's logo and the text: "King's Business School. King's Climate Action Network. Sustainability Research Interdisciplinary Challenge. Wednesday 2 February 2022, 14.00-16.30. Bush House Auditorium (Hybrid Event). Open to King's faculty, researchers and PhD students"

Sustainability Interdisciplinary Research Forum

This hybrid event will showcase sustainability research across King's and explore how interdisciplinary research can be strengthened.

Please note: this event has passed.