Professor Christina Voigt
University of Oslo
Christina Voigt, Ph.D. (Oslo, Norway), LL.M. Env. (Auckland, New Zealand), Rechtswissenschaft/Law (Passau and Munich, Germany), is Full Professor of Law at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Norway. She is a leading expert in international environmental law and the author of numerous academic articles, a monograph, and several edited volumes, including Non-Compliance Mechanisms versus International Courts (w/C. Foster, CUP, 2024), International Judicial Practice on the Environment – Questions of Legitimacy (CUP, 2019), Handbook on REDD+ and International Law (EEP, 2016), and Rule of Law for Nature (CUP, 2013).
Professor Voigt is the chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and recipient of the First Junior Scholarship Prize of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law among other distinguished awards and honours. She has served the Norwegian government as lead negotiator on REDD+ and as principal legal advisor in the UN climate change negotiations, negotiating, inter alia, the Paris Agreement and its Rulebook.
She has served as co-facilitator for the negotiations on the rules for the Paris Agreement´s implementation and compliance committee (PAICC). In 2019, she was elected by the first meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement as a member of PAICC and is the Committee´s inaugural Co-Chair.
Professor Voigt currently serves as lead legal counsel for the IUCN in the climate change advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights and the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea.