Legal Regimes for Environmental Protection Governance for Climate Change and Ocean Resources

HANS-JOACHIM KOCH is Professor at Hamburg University (em. 2010) and is a founder of the Research Centre for Environmental Law. From 2002-2008 he was chairman of the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU), and, since 2005 has been Chairman of the Association for Envrionmental Law (Gesellschaft für Umweltrecht).

DORIS KÖNIG, M.C.L. held the Claussen-Simon-Foundation Chair of International Law at Bucerius Law School Hamburg, where she was Dean from 2012 to 2014. Since June 2014 she is Judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. Her main research interests are in the fields of European Integration Law, the International Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law in relation to International Economic Law and the International Law of Human Rights.

JOACHIM SANDEN is Deputy of Directorate-General Environmental Protection in the Ministry of Urban Development and Environment of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and Extraordinary Professor at Leuphana University Lueneburg. His main research interests are in the fields of International, European and German Environmental Law.

RODA VERHEYEN is an attorney in private practice with a focus on environmental and planning law. Her academic interest is in climate change law and the context between development, finance and environment. She has an extensive background in international law and the making of international agreements.