{"title":"The ‘bottom-up pledge and review’ approach of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in the Paris Agreement: A Historical Breakthrough or a setback in new climate governance?","authors":"S. Zaman","doi":"10.14296/islr.v5i2.4898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14296/islr.v5i2.4898","url":null,"abstract":"Sharaban Tahura Zaman considers the significance of the Paris Agreement, 2015 in the global climate regulatory regime, explaining how it inscribed a new pragmatic regulatory framework through Nationally Determined Contributions with the intention of delivering adequate mitigation actions and ratchet them up over time so that by the second half of the century carbon neutrality can be achieved. The discussion in the article develops under three broad themes. The first part briefly dwells upon the changing context of the climate governance regime from the top-down to the bottom-up approaches. Then, the second part examines the legal character of the ‘bottom-up pledge and review’ approach of NDCs through the lens of international law. The third part identifies the key strengths and weaknesses of NDCs’ ‘bottom-up pledge and review’ approach to effectively address mitigation issues.","PeriodicalId":122771,"journal":{"name":"IALS Student Law Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125903808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Montevideo Roadmap 2018-2030: Promoting the need for Legal Intervention to Tackle Non-Communicable Diseases?","authors":"C. Ross","doi":"10.14296/ISLR.V5I2.4901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14296/ISLR.V5I2.4901","url":null,"abstract":"Callum Ross describes recent declarations made by the World Health Organisation in the Montevideo Roadmap 2018-2030 and makes the case for a reinvigorated willingness to explore how law can be used as a tool to combat the severe risk that non-communicable diseases pose to society. He argues that the World Health Organisation are now encouraging governments to utilise legal instruments to tackle non-communicable diseases, which is the right approach to take. He examines the issues of free personal choice and the ‘nanny state’ argument in relation to the question of whether governments should implement stronger legal interventions to prevent the harm of non-communicable diseases.","PeriodicalId":122771,"journal":{"name":"IALS Student Law Review","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129046819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Welcome to the IALS Student Law Review","authors":"Lovina Otudor","doi":"10.14296/ISLR.V5I1.2817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14296/ISLR.V5I1.2817","url":null,"abstract":"In this Editorial Lovina Otudor (Editor-in-Chief, ISLRev, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) welcomes you to the Autumn 2018 issue of the IALS Student Law Review and introduces the articles featured in this issue of the journal.","PeriodicalId":122771,"journal":{"name":"IALS Student Law Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121480419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor's introduction","authors":"Tugce Yalcin","doi":"10.14296/islr.v8i1.5265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14296/islr.v8i1.5265","url":null,"abstract":"In this Editorial, Tugçe Yalçin (Editor-in-Chief of ISLRev, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London) welcomes you to the COVID Special issue of the IALS Student Law Review (ISLRev) and introduces the articles featured in this issue of the journal.","PeriodicalId":122771,"journal":{"name":"IALS Student Law Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126321818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}