Event Title
Location
Room 107
Start Date
2-7-2012 11:20 AM
End Date
2-7-2012 12:40 PM
Description
The Middle East, a predominately arid and semiarid region, faces major environmental problems, including growing water shortages, climate change, and air and water pollution. Many of the nations in the region share similar environmental problems that require similar and/or common solutions. Laws and legal institutions need to be created, developed and strengthened at the national and regional levels in order to address these challenges. Effective implementation and enforcement of environmental laws are crucial for protection of public health and conservation of natural resources in the Middle East.
Middle East Environmental Law (MEEL) founded by Seyed Mohammad M. Hosseini, LL.M candidate from Vermont Law School. MEEL is an education resource for persons around the world interested in the environmental laws and regulations in the Middle East, and as a forum for discussion of environmental law and policy challenges facing the region. MEEL has assembled many of the leading environmental law scholars in the Middle East to contribute their expertise and knowledge. MEEL seeks to work with leading national and regional educational institutions as well as national, regional and international environmental organizations to support development of environmental law in the Middle East. Initially, MEEL will provide information about the environmental problems and the environmental laws and regulations of five nations in the region: Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar and Yemen. MEEL will also provide information on five major environmental law and policy challenges or opportunities, including: Energy and Climate Change, Pollution, Biodiversity, Water and Land Use, and Human Rights.
Highly distinguished professors and scholars from around the world serve on the MEEL Advisory Board. The membership of the Advisory Board includes:
- Ben Boer, Professor of Law, Sydney University Law School
- Carl Bruch, Senior Attorney, Environmental Law Institute (ELI)
- Dinah Shelton, Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
- Ibrahim Aljazy, Professor of Law, University of Jordan Law School
- Janet Blake, Law Lecturer, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
- John Echeverria, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
- Nicholas Robinson, Professor of Law, Pace Law School
- Parvez Hassan, Pakistan Environmental Law Association & Former IUCN Commission on Environmental Law Chair
- Said Mahmoudi, Professor and Dean of Law School, Stockholm University
- Sheila Abed, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law Chair
- Stephanie Farrior, Professor of Law and Director of International and Comparative Law Programs, Vermont Law School
- Dr. Wolfgang Burhenne, member of the steering committee to the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and executive governor of the International Council of Environmental Law
MEEL has established a Research Group which includes scholars resident in and/or native to the Middle East region who are contributing their time and effort to the MEEL. The 10th Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law at the University of Maryland is a great opportunity for the MEEL initiative to present its work which is in line with the selected theme of the Colloquium.
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Middle East Environmental Law Initiative
Room 107
The Middle East, a predominately arid and semiarid region, faces major environmental problems, including growing water shortages, climate change, and air and water pollution. Many of the nations in the region share similar environmental problems that require similar and/or common solutions. Laws and legal institutions need to be created, developed and strengthened at the national and regional levels in order to address these challenges. Effective implementation and enforcement of environmental laws are crucial for protection of public health and conservation of natural resources in the Middle East.
Middle East Environmental Law (MEEL) founded by Seyed Mohammad M. Hosseini, LL.M candidate from Vermont Law School. MEEL is an education resource for persons around the world interested in the environmental laws and regulations in the Middle East, and as a forum for discussion of environmental law and policy challenges facing the region. MEEL has assembled many of the leading environmental law scholars in the Middle East to contribute their expertise and knowledge. MEEL seeks to work with leading national and regional educational institutions as well as national, regional and international environmental organizations to support development of environmental law in the Middle East. Initially, MEEL will provide information about the environmental problems and the environmental laws and regulations of five nations in the region: Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar and Yemen. MEEL will also provide information on five major environmental law and policy challenges or opportunities, including: Energy and Climate Change, Pollution, Biodiversity, Water and Land Use, and Human Rights.
Highly distinguished professors and scholars from around the world serve on the MEEL Advisory Board. The membership of the Advisory Board includes:
- Ben Boer, Professor of Law, Sydney University Law School
- Carl Bruch, Senior Attorney, Environmental Law Institute (ELI)
- Dinah Shelton, Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
- Ibrahim Aljazy, Professor of Law, University of Jordan Law School
- Janet Blake, Law Lecturer, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
- John Echeverria, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
- Nicholas Robinson, Professor of Law, Pace Law School
- Parvez Hassan, Pakistan Environmental Law Association & Former IUCN Commission on Environmental Law Chair
- Said Mahmoudi, Professor and Dean of Law School, Stockholm University
- Sheila Abed, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law Chair
- Stephanie Farrior, Professor of Law and Director of International and Comparative Law Programs, Vermont Law School
- Dr. Wolfgang Burhenne, member of the steering committee to the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and executive governor of the International Council of Environmental Law
MEEL has established a Research Group which includes scholars resident in and/or native to the Middle East region who are contributing their time and effort to the MEEL. The 10th Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law at the University of Maryland is a great opportunity for the MEEL initiative to present its work which is in line with the selected theme of the Colloquium.