Law & Governance for the Sustainable Development Goals

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Global Research Centre Dedicated to Law & Governance on Sustainable Development

The CISDL supports understanding, development and implementation of law for sustainable development; leading international research through legal scholarship and knowledge-building, and education through legal dialogue and capacity-strengthening.

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Our Global Network

Americas: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,  Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé and Príncipe, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela 
 
Europe and Central Asia: Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mongolia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Uzbekistan 
 
Africa: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Madagascar, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, The Gambia, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe 
 
Oceania: Australia, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea
 
Middle East: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen 
 
East and South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam 
 

Our Programmes

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Democratising Legal Education

Democratising Education for Global Sustainability and Justice shares new law and policy knowledge, skills, and networks to empower learners making a difference worldwide. This programme, co-hosted by Lucy Cavendish College and Hughes Hall at the University of Cambridge, in partnership with leading Cambridge and international expert institutions like CISDL, engages current and future law and policy leaders especially from highly climate vulnerable countries, in implementing sustainable development commitments.

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Featured Research & Dialogue

Cite as: SDG Treaty Wheel, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Damilola Olawuyi, and Tejas Rao (CISDL, 2022)
Cite as: SDG Treaty Wheel, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Damilola Olawuyi, and Tejas Rao (CISDL, 2022)

Featured Publications

 Courage, Contributions and Compliance: The Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance, edited by Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and Prof Christina Voigt with assistant editor Adv Zunaida Moosa-Wadiwala and published by Routledge.

Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development, edited by Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Prof Ted Gleason, Associate Professor, and Adv Sean Stephenson and published by Edward Elgar.

Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Practices, and Prospects, authored by Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and Prof Damilola Olawuyi with assistant editor Adv Tejas Rao and published by Oxford University Press.