Yury Rovnov

Yury Rovnov’s comment on the International Court of Justice’s conclusion regarding the “primary temperature goal” of the Paris Agreement has been published in the Chinese Journal of International Law.

Laboratory’s research fellow Yury Rovnov examining the changing trends in how national courts within and across legal systems assess climate actions in tort.The polycentric nature of climate policy, which had proven fatal to plaintiffs’ earlier cases in common law jurisdictions, has rarely struck judges in continental Europe as a particularly effective defence. Nonetheless, to civil-law courts, too, the difficulties of linking individual harm to a specific GHG emitter have until recently made the adverse effects of climate change appear conceptually inapt for redress by means of tortious liability.

A case note by Yury Rovnov on the WTO panel reports in disputes brought by Indonesia and Malaysia over the EU’s biofuels regime (DS593, DS600) is published in the April issue of the American Journal of International Law.

On March 26, the Laboratory of International Justice, together with the Laboratory for the Study of Public Interest Protection under Economic Sanctions, held a round table discussion on the topic «Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change».

Yury Rovnov’s article “The Changing Faces of Deference under the WTO SPS and TBT Agreements” has been published in the most recent issue of the Journal of World Trade.

An article written by Yury Rovnov, a research fellow at the International Justice Laboratory, has been published in the most recent issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law.

Head of the International Justice Lab Vladislav Starzhenetsky and research fellow Yury Rovnov have co-authored a chapter on the implementation of international economic law in the national law of the Russian Federation, which appeared in the second edition of the Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law.

On April 23rd, the Scientific Research Laboratory of International Justice (LIJ) hosted a discussion on the challenges of proving negative facts in international justice.

A research article by Yury Rovnov, which discusses the standard of review for World Trade Organization dispute settlement panels, was published in this year's first issue of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement.

On April 25, Laboratory of International Justice held a Round Table on the topic “The Standard of Review for Issues of Law under the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement”.