When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide: The Politics of Conflict Management by Regional Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Conflicts between environmental protection laws and human rights present delicate trade-offs at times when concerns for social and ecological justice are ever more intertwined in environmental and human rights discourses. When Environmental Protection And Human Rights Collide retraces how the legal ordering of environmental protection evolved over time and progressively merged with human rights concerns, thereby leading to a synergistic account of their relation. An ideal of synergy facilitated legal interconnections between environmental protection laws and human rights. This, the book argues, is not a neutral stance, but a framing invested with political meaning about how ‘humans’ ought to relate to and live within ‘nature’. The book explores the world-making effects this framing performs, and the role played by legislators, experts and adjudicators in (re)producing it. While it questions, contextualises and problematises how and why this dominant framing was construed, it also reveals how the conflicts that underpin this relationship – and the victims these conflicts affect – have mainly remained unseen. The book unveils the argumentative tropes and adjudicative strategies used in the environmental case-law of regional human rights courts to understand how these overlooked conflicts are judicially mediated in practice. In doing so, the book opens space for new modes of politics, legal imagination and representation.
Reviewed in the European Journal of International Law (EJIL), Transnational Environmental Law, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, International Wildlife Law & Policy and RECIEL
Awarded ‘Best Doctoral or Habilitation Thesis in Public international law, Private international law, European law or Comparative law’ by the Swiss Society for International Law (2020).
Les sources du droit à l’eau en droit international (Paris: Éditions Johanet, 2013)
Ce livre aborde les diverses problématiques qui touchent à la reconnaissance du droit humain à l’eau potable. Mais s’agit-il d’un droit à la fois contraignant, universel et autonome ? Pour répondre à cette question, l’auteurice passe en revue l’ensemble des sources du droit international, en portant une attention particulière aux divers documents qui ont été publiés au cours de la dernière décennie, depuis l’observation générale n° 15 du Comité des droits économiques, sociaux et culturels, jusqu’à la Déclaration de Rio+20. Cette analyse détaillée permet de définir la forme, la nature et la portée du droit à l’eau tel qu’actuellement reconnu en droit international. Ces réflexions sur le statut juridique du droit à l’eau permettent ainsi de faire le point sur les avancées progressives enregistrées par celui-ci en termes de reconnaissance et d’application, tout en relevant les lacunes qui persistent.