Law & Governance for the Sustainable Development Goals

Integrating environment, human rights and economy through legal scholarship and empowerment

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.

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, Hong-Kong, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Our Programmes

Continuing Legal Education

The CISDL provides both capacity building and continuing legal education courses on sustainable development law. Developed in conjunction with the Canadian Branch of the International Law Association (ILA), these online courses are taught by leading international experts and accredited by the Québec Bar.