EMMANUELLA DOUSSIS
edoussis[at]pspa.uoa[dot]gr
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Emmanuella Doussis is a professor of international institutions at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She lectures on international institutions, international and European environmental law and policies, the role of international law in addressing several crises, including the climate crisis, climate diplomacy, climate policies with a focus on Southeast Europe.
She has studied political science and law at the University of Athens and at the Sorbonne in Paris (Paris I). Her interest in environmental issues goes back to when she was a student in Paris. After a first Master in International Law, she completed a second one in Environmental Law. Since then, environmental issues and lately climate change policies and diplomacy have been at the center of her research interests.
She has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, visiting professor at the Universities of Grenoble-Alpes, Bourgogne, Aix-Marseille and a visiting fellow at the European University Institute (EUI). Her most recent book concerns the role of international law and diplomacy in effectively managing climate change (International Law and Climate Change Diplomacy, Nomiki Vivliothiki, Athens, 2020).
She has coordinated European educational and research projects (Jean Monnet module on Moving the EU forward 2015-2018, Jean Monnet module on European Climate Diplomacy 2019-2022). She is a member of the IUCN World Environmental Law Committee, of the Scientific Council of the Centre for Mediterranean Integration, the scientific committee of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Greek National Committee for Adaptation on Climate Change. She has published alone or in collaboration with other authors ten books, and numerous articles in peer-review international journals. For her educational and research activities she has been awarded the 2021 Natural Resources International Legal Specialist Award from the Centre of International Sustainable Development Law.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
PhD in International Law, NKUA (1998)
D.E.A. - Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in Environmental Law, Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (1992)
D.E.A. - Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in Public International Law and International Organisations, Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (1990)
Bachelor's in Political Science and Public Administration, NKUA (1988)
RESEARCH
Research interests
International Law, International Institutions, International Organisation, Climate Diplomacy, Environmental Politics, International Environmental Law.
Recent publications
Doussis E. & Espa I. (2021) 'Legal indicators as tools to assess the effectiveness of international rules related to the sustainable management of natural resources'. In Tsani S. and Overland I. (eds.), Handbook of Sustainable Politics and Economics of Natural Resources (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), pp. 293-302.
Doussis E. (2021) 'Les zones économiques exclusives en Méditerranée: beaucoup de bruit pour rien?'. In Lafranchi M.P. et Mehdi R. (dir.), Actualités de la gouvernance internationale de la Mer Méditerranée (Paris: Pedone), pp. 43-52.
Doussis E. (2020) International Law and Climate Change Diplomacy [in Greek] (Athens: Nomiki Vivliothiki).
Boisson De Chazournes L., Doussis E., Andreone G. et Zervaki A. (dir., 2020) Enjeux et perspectives: Droit international, droit de la mer, droits de l'homme - Liber amicorum en l'honneur de la professeure Haritini Dipla (Paris: Pedone).
Doussis E. (2019) 'Nuances de gris: les conditionnalités du FMI et les droits de l'homme'. In Titi C. (ed.) Droits de l'homme et droit international économique (Bruxelles: Bruylant).
Doussis E. (2018) 'The Work of the International Monetary Fund and Its Possible Relevance to Global Ocean Governance'. In Attard D.J., Fitzmaurice M. and Ntovas A.X.M. (eds.) The IMLI Treatise On Global Ocean Governance. Volume II: UN Specialized Agencies and Global Ocean Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Doussis E. (2017) 'Does international environmental law matter in sustainable development?'. Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Vol. 28, p. 3-14.
Doussis E. (2017) Climate Change [in Greek] (Athens: Papadopoulos Publications).
Doussis E. (2017) 'Marine Scientific Research: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead'. In Andreone G. (ed.) The future of the Law of the Sea. Bridging Gaps between national, individual and common interests (Cham: Springer).
Doussis E. (2016) 'Reconsidering the Marine Scientific Research in the Adriatic and Ionian Seas: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead'. In Caligiuri A. (ed.) Governance of the Adriatic and Ionian Marine Space (Milano: Editoriale Scientifica).
Doussis E. (2014) Global Environmental Governance in Crisis [in Greek] (Athens: Papazisis Publications).
Recent activity
Paper presentation titled 'The road to climate neutrality and just transition in Southern Europe: the case of Greece' at the Annual ECPR General Conference, 1/09/2021.
Intervention titled 'Evaluating laws for their SDG contributions' at the seminar Mapping Science Based Law & Governance Innovations for Climate Action & the Global Sustainable Development Goals across Canada, organized by the University of Cambridge and the University of Waterloo, 28/07/2021.
Keynote lecture titled 'The EU’s Green Deal after the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece' at the conferece The EU’s Green Deal after the COVID-19 pandemic: concerns and revelations, organized by the Center for Research on Democracy and Law of the University of Macedonia, 24/06/2021.
Lecture at the Hellenic National Committee on Human Rights on “The right to environment”, 7/06/2021
Presentation titled 'Climate change and structural reforms in Greece' at the conference Climate change in the post-covid era, organized by the University of Thrace, 4/06/2021.
Paper presentation titled 'Revisiting the ILC’s articles on the responsibility of international organizations ten year after their adoption: taking stock and looking ahead' at the conference EU Responsibility in the International System, organized by the Kalliopi Koufa Foundation, 14/05/2021.
Presentation titled 'Protecting Cultural Heritage from Climate Change. The role of the International Framework on Climate Change' at the webinar Climate Change and Cultural Heritage, organized by the Hellenic Branch of the Blue Shield, 9/03/2021.