
Ep 4 - International Law: Climate Change and Gender
09/03/21 • 57 min
In this episode of the NZIIA podcast, Alex and Jordan from Victoria University Law School talk to Vinod Bal, an international law researcher who has worked in Vietnam and Berlin and has completed his dissertation at the University of Waikato. We discuss recent issues in international law, including the developing area of climate change law, and share some perhaps cynical views. Vinod then talks about his ground-breaking dissertation on the extent to which international law protects transgender and non-binary persons from discrimination (despite some unusual wording in the Rome Statute.
Produced by Francesca Georgia Pietkiewicz
In this episode of the NZIIA podcast, Alex and Jordan from Victoria University Law School talk to Vinod Bal, an international law researcher who has worked in Vietnam and Berlin and has completed his dissertation at the University of Waikato. We discuss recent issues in international law, including the developing area of climate change law, and share some perhaps cynical views. Vinod then talks about his ground-breaking dissertation on the extent to which international law protects transgender and non-binary persons from discrimination (despite some unusual wording in the Rome Statute.
Produced by Francesca Georgia Pietkiewicz
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