EULawSD team to join online event on protection of COVID-19 ‘victims’ in international and EU law

On May 26th, the academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module in EU Law and Sustainable and Development Riccardo Pavoni, together with fellow EULawSD team member Patrizia Vigni, will join an online event organised by the Università degli Studi di Siena as part of its ‘Virtual Studium‘ series.

The interview will discuss how international and EU Law can help protect ‘victims’ of COVID-19, including relatives of deceased persons, people who are or have been sick due to COVID-19, persons displaced by COVID-19, persons who have become unemployed due to COVID-19, and companies which have been obliged to close down and/or have suffered economic losses due to the pandemic. 

The event will be broadcast on the University’s Facebook page (@unisiena) starting from 18.30/6.30pm CEST. To learn more, see http://www.unisi.it/unisilife/eventi/virtual-studium.

EULawSD Coordinator Joins UFMG’s Winter Course

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We are happy to announce that EULawSD academic coordinator Riccardo Pavoni has been invited as a lecturer of the 15th International Law Winter Course of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), which is organised by the Centro de Estudos em Direito e Negócios (CEDIN) and will take place from July 8 to 19 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

In his lectures, Prof Pavoni will teach International Legal Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage in Armed Conflict. This is an important opportunity to expand EULawSD’s research network with a prestigious academic collaboration, which will foster debate on the role of international law in promoting peaceful, inclusive and sustainable post-conflict societies through the protection of the world’s natural and cultural heritage. In addition, the topic presents crucial linkages with a number of issues addressed by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, ranging from the relationship between Goals 15 (Life on Land) and 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) to the explicit provision on natural and cultural heritage contained in target 11.4.

UNAB celebrates the visiting professorship of EULawSD’s Riccardo Pavoni

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Following his recent visiting professorship, the Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB) has taken time to acknowledge the contribution of EULawSD academic coordinator Riccardo Pavoni in advancing the teaching of sustainable development in international and EU law at the Colombian institution.

In an article on its website, UNAB quoted Prof Pavoni as saying that ‘institutions need to design public policies that take all three pillars of sustainable development into account,’ and particularly make sure that economic policies always ‘incorporate principles, actions and provisions on environmental protection,’ thus reflecting the integrated vision contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in September 2015.

The full web article (in Spanish) is available below.

El docente de derecho internacional y europeo, además de ser coordinador de Erasmus +, Riccardo Pavoni, visitó la UNAB como parte de las actividades de intercambio entre esta institución y dicho programa de la Unión Europea, que tiene como fin brindar apoyo a la educación, formación, juventud y deporte en ese continente.

En su ponencia sobre el principio del desarrollo sostenible en el derecho internacional y el derecho europeo, Pavoni explicó que hay que conciliar el desarrollo económico con la protección del medio ambiente, y para ello es importante que se encuentre el equilibrio entre tres pilares: ecológico, social y económico.

“Las instituciones tienen que proporcionar políticas públicas, medidas que tengan en cuenta todos los pilares, no solamente de manera destacada, el pilar económico y no el ambiental, por ejemplo. Si hay una medida o una ley que conserve la economía o el mercado, esta ley económica tiene que integrar principios, medidas y disposiciones de protección ambiental”, señaló.

Asimismo, habló sobre los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), los cuales, según él, si se implementan de manera integrada y no destacada, serán un gran éxito para la humanidad.

Pavoni destacó también el papel fundamental de las universidades en este proceso. “Es claro que es un desarrollo sostenible global que se debe hacer a nivel local. Si no hay un nivel local que implemente los objetivos, no podemos ver el impacto global. Desde las universidades se puede hacer mucho en materia de desafíos. Hay muchas acciones prácticas, pequeñas, que sumadas pueden conducir a un desarrollo sostenible”, indicó.

Desde 2018, la UNAB es una de las 49 instituciones educativas que hace parte del Pacto Mundial de Naciones Unidas que promueve principios para lograr el desarrollo sostenible y el cumplimiento de los ODS.

UNAB Tertulia 11.2-2019

EULawSD On Tour at University ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ of Chieti-Pescara

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We are pleased to announce that the Jean Monnet Module in European Union Law and Sustainable Development will go on tour this week.

On 15-16 February, EULawSD academic coordinator, Prof. Riccardo Pavoni, willl be giving two lectures in Pescara for the ‘PhD course on Business, Institutions, Markets’ (https://economia.unich.it/dec/visualizza.php?type=gruppo&id=76) of the University ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ of Chieti-Pescara (https://www.unich.it).

Prof. Pavoni’s lectures will deal with ‘Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection in European Union Law‘ (15 February) and ‘Sustainable Trade and Environmental Protection in the European Single Market‘” (16 February). They will take place under the PhD course’s module on “Sustainable Development and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, which will also feature contributions from Professors Francesco Francioni and Ferdinando Franceschelli.

The full program of the course module is available at this link: https://www.dsgs.unich.it/sites/st11/files/locandina_def.pdf.