Civic Life Lunch – Shaping International Law to Combat Climate Change: Island States' Efforts Before International Courts

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Interested in the intersection of law and climate change? Join a lunch conversation with Associate Attorney Duncan Pickard on how Island States' climate efforts before international courts are shaping international law for the better. Lunch provided.

Duncan Pickard is an Associate Attorney in the International Dispute Resolution and Public International Law Groups at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, in New York, where he represents sovereign States, international organizations, and individuals in a wide variety of disputes before international courts and tribunals. Most recently, he acted as counsel for the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS), an international organization representing ten small islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean, to bring a request for an advisory opinion on climate change before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. He also advises COSIS in the advisory proceedings on climate change pending before the International Court of Justice. Duncan is a graduate of Stanford Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School, and Tufts University, where he was part of the Institute for Global Leadership's Synaptic Scholars Program.