It is with profound sadness that the Law School announces the sudden death of our beloved colleague Conor Gearty.

Dr McDonagh has published a piece in the Financial Times on Intellectual Property Law and the blockbuster drug Ozempic. Dr McDonagh argues that Novo Nordisk’s recent escalation of lawsuits against the ...

This report analyses innovation activity represented by patenting data for two carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies — bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and direct air carbon ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights is releasing its long-awaited Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights, a landmark development that is expected to define binding standards ...

This report focuses on key trends and evolutions in global climate change litigation from the calendar year 2024, while also highlighting important new developments through to May 2025. It provides a ...

Climate litigation, including those challenging fossil fuel projects, is more often reaching the highest courts around the world, according to analysis published today (25 June 2025) by the Grantham ...

Response to the ruling made by a German court in the landmark climate litigation case brought by a Peruvian farmer against electricity producer RWE. Joana Setzer, Associate Professor at the Grantham ...

Understanding the distribution of carbon footprints across population groups is crucial for designing fair and acceptable climate policies. To date, gender has remained an underexplored factor in ...

Climate change is already having a measurable impact on labour forces across the globe, with far reaching implications for economic growth, in addition to worker health, firm profitability, poverty ...

This report focuses on the exploration of existing low-emission cooling solutions to extreme heat through the review of international and UK evidence, with a particular focus on London. It also ...

The Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) reduced total goods exports from the UK by an estimated £27bn (or 6.4 per cent) in 2022 – due to a 13.2 per cent fall in the value of goods exported to the EU ...

“We welcome publication of the new COP29 Presidency text on the new collective quantified goal on climate finance. It calls on “all actors to work together to enable the scaling up of financing to ...