Session 1: Introduction to the SDGs: What is sustainable development?
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Dr. Alexandra Harrington
Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL)
Prof. Dr. Alexandra R. Harrington is the Research Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Albany Law School, where her teaching focuses on international law issues. She is also the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Global Governance and Emerging Law and the Director of Studies for ILA Colombia. She has held two Fulbright terms in Canada at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, focusing on global governance issues.
She is the author and co-editor of several books, including International Organizations and the Law and the forthcoming International Law and Global Governance: Treaty Regimes and Sustainable Development Goals Interpretation (Routledge, March 2021), and the author of over 50 articles and book chapters. She routinely advises international organizations, regional organizations, governments and corporate entities on governance issues, environmental law, legal issues relating to climate change, sustainable development, just transitions in mining and related sectors, and international human rights law. A native of the United States and the United Kingdom, she holds a Doctorate of Civil Law (McGill University Faculty of Law), in addition to a JD, LL.M. and BA degrees in Politics and History.
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Session 2: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals
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Dr. Christophe Golay
Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Dr. Christophe Golay is Senior Research Fellow and Strategic Adviser on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. His expertise, teaching and publications relate to ESCR, the right to food, access to justice for victims of human rights violations, human rights and the SDGs, the rights of peasants, the legal framework of humanitarian action, and the work of the UN Human Rights Council, special procedures and treaty bodies.
From 2001 to 2008, Dr Golay was Legal Adviser to the first UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food and undertook missions with the UN in Brazil, Guatemala, Bolivia, Cuba, Niger, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, India and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. In that capacity, he participated in the definition of the right to food in international law, and published several books, including his PhD dissertation, on the right to food and access to justice.
From 2001 to 2008, Dr Golay was Legal Adviser to the first UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food and undertook missions with the UN in Brazil, Guatemala, Bolivia, Cuba, Niger, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, India and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. In that capacity, he participated in the definition of the right to food in international law, and published several books, including his PhD dissertation, on the right to food and access to justice.
Dr. Golay is currently supervising the legal dimension of two research projects on the right to food in Bolivia, Cambodia, Ghana and Kenya, jointly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
He is the author of ESCR and SDGs (2020) and No One Will Be Left Behind (2018).
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