The Utrecht School of Law will be appointing three PhD researchers to engage in research on the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction to protect global values in the environmental and socio-economic field. The project examines whether the traditional international legal framework of jurisdiction (which emphasizes territorial or personal links to the regulating entity) can accommodate recent regulatory developments in the field of extraterritorial jurisdiction, or whether, instead, a novel ‘global values’-based principle of jurisdiction is crystallizing. The project will study regulation in respect of three topics:

1. climate change,
2. protection of marine resources, and
3. foreign corrupt practices.

For more info, click on the links above. The project is funded by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and is headed by my excellent colleague, Dr. Cedric Ryngaert.