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= Director, Climate Legacy Initiative, Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, College of Law, The University of Iowa
'''= Burns H Weston is Co-Director (with [[David Bollier]]) of the [[Commons Law Project]]  [http://www.commonslawproject.org].'''
==Bio==


=Bio=
"BURNS H. WESTON (B.A.., LL.B., J.S.D., LL.D.) is the Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus & Senior Scholar, Center for Human Rights, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52240 USA. Co-Director (with David Bollier), Commons Law Project (www.commonslawproject.org).  Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science.  Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law.  Co-author (with Bollier) of Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons (Cambridge University Press, January 2013). Email: <burns-weston@uiowa.edu>."


"Retired from full-time teaching on The University of Iowa law faculty in May 1999, Professor Weston began his legal career in 1961 with the New York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In 1966, after two years as a Sterling Fellow and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Yale Law School, he joined The University of Iowa College of Law and since then has served as Founding Director of the University's former Center for World Order Studies (later known as the University's Global Studies Program) (1972-76), Senior Fellow and Director of the Transnational Academic Program of the Institute for World Order in New York City (1976-78), and Visiting Professor of International Law at Grinnell College (1974), the University of California at Los Angeles (1981), Louisiana State University (1991), Florida State University (2001), the Hopkins-Nanjing Center of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University (2003), and the Vermont Law School (VLS) where, during 2004-2009, he taught and consulted each Fall Term as Visiting Distinguished Professor of International Law and Policy, Director of the VLS Human Rights Initiative (HRI), and Director of the VLS Climate Legacy Initiative (CLI), a joint project of the Vermont Law School Environmental Law Center (VLS-ELC) and the UI Center for Human Rights (UICHR). In 1999, Professor Weston spearheaded the founding, and thereafter directed for five consecutive years, The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR). Upon his resignation from that position on December 31, 2004, he was named lifetime Senior Scholar of the UI Center for Human Rights. At the same time, he was appointed as a senior human rights adviser ("Expert on Mission") to UNICEF's Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy. In June 2006, he was appointed as a senior human rights adviser to IKEA's worldwide "Social Initiative," the Swedish manufacturer's newly established philanthropic arm. Also at that time, owing to the untimely death of his successor as Director of the UICHR, he was appointed Interim Director of the UICHR for 2006-07.
===Long bio===


Professor Weston's teaching and research interests have centered on international jurisprudence, international human rights law (including intergenerational rights), the laws of war, the law of state responsibility (particularly in relation to the concerns of developing countries), international environmental law, and US foreign relations law. When he is not teaching or lecturing elsewhere in the world, he rejoins the Iowa law faculty in adjunct capacity to teach Introduction to Public International Law, Human Rights in the World Community, International Legal Jurisprudence, Advanced Topics in International Law and Policy, and an Advanced Human Rights Law & Policy Research Seminar. For select students, he also offers an Advanced Tutorial on International Human Rights Law & Policy.
BURNS H. WESTON (B.A.., LL.B., J.S.D., LL.D.) is the Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus & Senior Scholar, Center for Human Rights, The University of Iowa (UI), Iowa City, Iowa 52240 USA.  Founder & Associate Dean, International and Comparative Legal Studies Program, UI College of Law (1993-99). Founding Director, UI Center for Human Rights (1999-2004).  


Professor Weston is the author of many books and articles, including articles in the American Journal of International Law, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Harvard International Law Journal, Human Rights & Human Welfare, the Human Rights Quarterly, the Maine Law Review, McGill Law Journal, Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems, the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, and the Virginia Journal of International Law. His most recent major achievement is a policy paper issued by the VLS-UI Climate Legacy Initiative, published by Vermont Law School in Spring 2009, and entitled Recalibrating the Law of Humans with the Laws of Nature: Climate Change, Human Rights, and Intergenerational Justice.
'''Key Perspective and Project:''' The vast majority of the world’s scientists agree:  We have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity.  But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited; we treat "the environment” as its own separate realm, taking for granted prevailing but outmoded conceptions of economics, national sovereignty, and international law.  If Planet Earth is to survive as we know it, we must find new ways to protect our planet from the unsustainable growth imperatives of neoliberal economics and politics. This will require a new architecture of “green governance”―laws, public policies, and social practices that can honor human rights and commons-based management of natural resources large and small.  


Professor Weston's most recent books include: International Environmental Law and World Order: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook (3d ed. forthcoming from Thomson-West in 2008-09) (with Professor Jonathan C. Carlson of The University of Iowa and Sir Geoffrey W.R. Palmer of the New Zealand Law Commission); Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action (University of Pennsylvania Press, 3d ed. 2006) (with Professor Richard Pierre Claude of the University of Maryland); Child Labor and Human Rights: Making Children Matter (Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2005); The Future of International Human Rights (originally Transnational Publishers, Inc., 1999, now Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) (with Professor Stephen P. Marks of Harvard University); International Claims: Their Settlement by Lump Sum Agreement, 1975-1995 (originally Transnational Publishers, Inc. 1999, now Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) (with Professor Richard B. Lillich, late of the University of Virginia, and Professor David J. Bederman of Emory University); and an annotated and annually updated multi-volume collection entitled International Law and World Order: Basic Documents (originally Transnational Publishers, Inc., 1994-- , now Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) (with Professor Jonathan C. Carlson of The University of Iowa). He also is the lead co-author/co-editor (with Professors Richard A. Falk of Princeton University, Hilary Charlesworth of the Australian National University, and Andrew L. Strauss of the Widener University School of Law) of the award-winning textbook International Law and World Order: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook (Thomson-West, 4th ed. 2006).
From this perspective, Weston has co-founded with David Bollier The Commons Law Project (CLP), a bold attempt to imagine a new architecture of law and public policy that can effectively address climate change and other urgent ecological problems while advancing human rights and social empowerment. Given the manifest failures of the existing State/Market duopoly to achieve these goals, it is imperative, they argue, that we move beyond reforms of the existing system to instigate new types of governance structures. They see “commons law” (not to be confused with common law) as a way to integrate a broader notion of economics, human rights, and commons-based governance into a compelling new paradigm of environmental protection.
In furtherance of this project vision, Weston and Bollier recently published Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons (Cambridge University Press, Jan. 2013), a direct response to the mounting calls for a paradigm shift in the way humans relate to the natural environment. The book opens the door to a new set of solutions by proposing a compelling new synthesis of environmental protection based on broader notions of economics and human rights and on commons-based governance. Going beyond speculative abstractions, the book proposes a new architecture of environmental law and public policy that is both practical and theoretically sound.


Among Professor Weston's other major writings are: Preferred Futures for the United Nations (originally Transnational Publishers, Inc. 1995, now Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) (with Professor Saul H. Mendlovitz of Rutgers University); Alternative Security: Living Without Nuclear Deterrence (Westview Press, 1990); Toward Nuclear Disarmament and Global Security: A Search for Alternatives (Westview Press, 1984); Toward World Order and Human Dignity: Essays in Honor of Myres S. McDougal (The Free Press, 1976) (with Professor W. Michael Reisman of Yale University); International Claims: Their Settlement by Lump Sum Agreements (University of Virginia Press, 2 vols., 1975) (with the late Professor Richard B. Lillich of the University of Virginia); and International Claims: Postwar French Practice (Syracuse University Press, 1971). For Professor Weston's complete bibliography, click "Bibliography" at the top of this page.
Noteworthily, the book includes a proposed Universal Covenant Affirming A Human Right to Commons- and Rights-based Governance of Earth's Natural Wealth and Resources, which can be used to advance the vision of Green Governance.  


Professor Weston is also a member of the editorial boards of several professional journals, including the American Journal of International Law, on whose Board of Editors he now serves as Honorary Editor; Human Rights & Human Welfare, an international journal of critical essays and book notes on major human rights, justice, and welfare issues; Intergenerational Justice Review, a German-based quarterly of current research and thinking from political science, law, and ethics concerning the rights of future generations;and Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems. During 1994-2003, he served as Series Editor of the Procedural Aspects of International Law Monograph Series, the oldest continuing international law book series in the United States. Further, he is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS); Counsellor to the American Society of International Law (ASIL) which, in 1992-92, he served as Vice-President; and a member of the Board of Directors of the Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute (PAIL), the Board of Directors of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP), the Academic Council of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), and a founding member of the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR). In Spring 2010, in recognition of his work bridging human rights and the environment, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Plains Justice, a Great Plains public-interest law center defending the right to environmental justice and a sustainable economy in Northern Plains communities, including in eastern Montana and Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa. Previously he served as an elected "life member" of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), as an elected member of the National Council of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), and as a member of the Advisory Council of the International Human Rights Law Group (IHRLG), now known as Global Rights--Partners for Justice.
Pertinent Affiliations:  Director, Climate Legacy Initiative (a joint project of the Vermont Law School Environmental Law Center and The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights); Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science; Honorary Editor, Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law; Editorial Review Board, Human Rights Quarterly; Editorial Review Board, Human Rights & Human Welfare; Editorial Board, Intergenerational Justice Review.  


From 1989 until his formal retirement from full-time teaching in July 1999, Professor Weston served variously and generally simultaneously as Associate Dean for International and Comparative Legal Studies, as Chair of The University of Iowa's International and Comparative Law Program (ICLP), and as Faculty Advisor to Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems (TLCP), the Iowa Society of International Law and Affairs, renamed the College of Law International Law Society (ILS), and the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (with Professor Jonathan Carlson). He also served on the Advisory Council and the International Instruction and Research Programs Committee of The University of Iowa's Office of International Programs. He continues with the ICL Program in a pro bono advisory capacity.
==Publications==


During 1998-99, Professor Weston chaired Global Focus: Human Rights '98, a University-wide initiative instituted and coordinated by Professor Weston to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In late 1999, as an outgrowth of that initiative, he led the founding of The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR) (see above), a project of The University of Iowa's International Programs and the UI College of Law's International and Comparative Law Program. Presently he serves as lifetime Senior Scholar of the UICHR.
===Pertinent Books===


In recognition of his many and diverse accomplishments, Professor Weston has been variously honored. Among his most recent honors may be counted the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa (LL.D.), conferred upon him by Vermont Law School in 2009; the <"Burns H. Weston Annual International Human Rights Prize Essay Competition," formally established in 2005 following his resignation as Director of the UI Center for Human Rights and in recognition of his lifetime service to international human rights teaching, scholarship, and activism; the State of Iowa Board of Regents Award for Faculty Excellence (1999); the Iowa City Press Citizen "Person of the Year" Award/Runner-up (1999); the Human Rights Hero Award of the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR) on behalf of Global Focus: Human Rights '98 (1998); and the International Human Rights Award of the Iowa City Human Rights Commission (1998). In addition, in 1998, he was awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters (D.H.L.) by Marycrest International University in Davenport, Iowa.
* [[Green Governance, Human Rights, and the Commons | GREEN GOVERNANCE: ECOLOGICAL SURVIVAL, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE LAW OF THE COMMONS]] (co-author with David Bollier, Cambridge University Press, Jan. 2013);
* INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND WORLD ORDER: A PROBLEM-ORIENTED COURSEBOOK (co-editor/co-contributor with J. Carlson & G. Palmer, West Publishing, 3d ed. 2012);  
* RECALIBRATING THE LAW OF HUMANS WITH THE LAWS OF NATURE: CLIMATE CHANGE, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE (co-author with T. Bach, Vermont Law School, 2009);  
* HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY: ISSUES AND ACTION (co-editor/co-author with R. Claude, U. Pennsylvania Press, 3d ed. 2006);
* INTERNATIONAL LAW AND WORLD ORDER: A PROBLEM-ORIENTED COURSEBOOK (co-editor/co-contributor with R. Falk, H. Charlesworth, & A. Strauss, West Publishing, 4th ed. 2006);
* THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS (co-editor/co-contributor with S. Marks, Transnational Publishers, 1999).


Conversant in French, Professor Weston is widely traveled and has lectured around the world and throughout the United States on many occasions. In 1991, he taught in the Summer Program of Louisiana State University in Aix-en-Provence, France; in 1993 and 2008, he taught in the College of Law's Summer Program in International and Comparative Law in Arcachon, France; and in 1994-95, as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (one of thirteen nationwide that year), he presented multiple lectures and conducted numerous classes on college and university campuses across the United States. In Spring 2001, he served as Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar and Visiting Professor of Law at Florida State University, and in Fall 2003 he served as The Freeman Foundation Senior Professor of Law at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center of Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Since 2004, he has served each Fall Term as Visiting Distinguished Professor of International Law and Policy at the Vermont Law School (VLS), Director of the VLS Human Rights Initiative (HRI), and, as noted above, Director of the VLS Climate Legacy Initiative (CLI), a joint project with the The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR).
===Pertinent Essays===


In addition, Professor Weston has participated in numerous human rights fact-finding and conflict mitigation missions abroad, including Cuba, the West Bank and Gaza, Kosovo, and the Republic of Georgia. In 1985, he was a member of the human rights observer delegation that met armed resistance when accompanying then Korean opposition leader (later President of the Republic of Korea) Kim Dae Jung upon Mr. Kim's return to Seoul from forced exile in the United States.
* “The Theoretical Foundations of Intergenerational Ecological Justice: An Overview,” 34 Hum. Rts. Q. 251 (2012);<ref>http://www.commonslawproject.org/sites/default/files/weston_-_the_theoretical_foundations_of_intergenerational_ecological_justice.pdf</ref>
 
* “Define and Develop a Law of the Ecological Commons for Present and Future Generations,” in Appendix B OF RECALIBRATING THE LAW OF HUMANS WITH THE LAWS OF NATURE: CLIMATE CHANGE, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE (Vermont Law School, 2009) (with C. Raffensperger & D. Bollier);
Professor Weston is a retired member of the Iowa and New York bars. He spends approximately half of each year at his second home in the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York and, as well, several months of each year in Sweden, the homeland of his wife, Marta Cullberg Weston, a psychoanalyst and writer. Additionally, he is the proud father of Timothy B. Weston, a professor of Chinese History at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Rebecca B. Weston, a lawyer turned clinical social worker, currently living and working in Missoula, Montana. He is proud also of his three stepchildren, each of whom lives and works in Stockholm: Malin (a doctor), Martin (a lawyer), and Johannes (a CEO economist). At the same time, he boastfully enjoys as often as he can his 7 years old granddaughter, Leah Julia Yonemoto-Weston (a/k/a "Buttercup"); his 4 years old grandson, Elijah Romeo Weston-Capulong (a/k/a "Lijah"); his 4 years old granddaughter Emma Rose Yonemoto-Weston; his 2 years old granddaughter Isabella Burns Weston-Capulong (a/k/a "Isa"); his 3 years old step-grandson John Birger Wedinger; and his newborn step-grandaughter Olivia Lampenius Cullberg."
* “Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice: Foundational Reflections,” 9 Vt. J. Envtl. L. 375 (2008).
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= Burns H Weston is Co-Director (with David Bollier) of the Commons Law Project [1].

Bio

"BURNS H. WESTON (B.A.., LL.B., J.S.D., LL.D.) is the Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus & Senior Scholar, Center for Human Rights, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52240 USA. Co-Director (with David Bollier), Commons Law Project (www.commonslawproject.org). Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science. Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law. Co-author (with Bollier) of Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons (Cambridge University Press, January 2013). Email: <burns-weston@uiowa.edu>."

Long bio

BURNS H. WESTON (B.A.., LL.B., J.S.D., LL.D.) is the Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus & Senior Scholar, Center for Human Rights, The University of Iowa (UI), Iowa City, Iowa 52240 USA. Founder & Associate Dean, International and Comparative Legal Studies Program, UI College of Law (1993-99). Founding Director, UI Center for Human Rights (1999-2004).

Key Perspective and Project: The vast majority of the world’s scientists agree: We have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited; we treat "the environment” as its own separate realm, taking for granted prevailing but outmoded conceptions of economics, national sovereignty, and international law. If Planet Earth is to survive as we know it, we must find new ways to protect our planet from the unsustainable growth imperatives of neoliberal economics and politics. This will require a new architecture of “green governance”―laws, public policies, and social practices that can honor human rights and commons-based management of natural resources large and small.

From this perspective, Weston has co-founded with David Bollier The Commons Law Project (CLP), a bold attempt to imagine a new architecture of law and public policy that can effectively address climate change and other urgent ecological problems while advancing human rights and social empowerment. Given the manifest failures of the existing State/Market duopoly to achieve these goals, it is imperative, they argue, that we move beyond reforms of the existing system to instigate new types of governance structures. They see “commons law” (not to be confused with common law) as a way to integrate a broader notion of economics, human rights, and commons-based governance into a compelling new paradigm of environmental protection.

In furtherance of this project vision, Weston and Bollier recently published Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons (Cambridge University Press, Jan. 2013), a direct response to the mounting calls for a paradigm shift in the way humans relate to the natural environment. The book opens the door to a new set of solutions by proposing a compelling new synthesis of environmental protection based on broader notions of economics and human rights and on commons-based governance. Going beyond speculative abstractions, the book proposes a new architecture of environmental law and public policy that is both practical and theoretically sound.

Noteworthily, the book includes a proposed Universal Covenant Affirming A Human Right to Commons- and Rights-based Governance of Earth's Natural Wealth and Resources, which can be used to advance the vision of Green Governance.

Pertinent Affiliations: Director, Climate Legacy Initiative (a joint project of the Vermont Law School Environmental Law Center and The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights); Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science; Honorary Editor, Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law; Editorial Review Board, Human Rights Quarterly; Editorial Review Board, Human Rights & Human Welfare; Editorial Board, Intergenerational Justice Review.

Publications

Pertinent Books

  • GREEN GOVERNANCE: ECOLOGICAL SURVIVAL, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE LAW OF THE COMMONS (co-author with David Bollier, Cambridge University Press, Jan. 2013);
  • INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND WORLD ORDER: A PROBLEM-ORIENTED COURSEBOOK (co-editor/co-contributor with J. Carlson & G. Palmer, West Publishing, 3d ed. 2012);
  • RECALIBRATING THE LAW OF HUMANS WITH THE LAWS OF NATURE: CLIMATE CHANGE, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE (co-author with T. Bach, Vermont Law School, 2009);
  • HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY: ISSUES AND ACTION (co-editor/co-author with R. Claude, U. Pennsylvania Press, 3d ed. 2006);
  • INTERNATIONAL LAW AND WORLD ORDER: A PROBLEM-ORIENTED COURSEBOOK (co-editor/co-contributor with R. Falk, H. Charlesworth, & A. Strauss, West Publishing, 4th ed. 2006);
  • THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS (co-editor/co-contributor with S. Marks, Transnational Publishers, 1999).

Pertinent Essays

  • “The Theoretical Foundations of Intergenerational Ecological Justice: An Overview,” 34 Hum. Rts. Q. 251 (2012);[1]
  • “Define and Develop a Law of the Ecological Commons for Present and Future Generations,” in Appendix B OF RECALIBRATING THE LAW OF HUMANS WITH THE LAWS OF NATURE: CLIMATE CHANGE, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE (Vermont Law School, 2009) (with C. Raffensperger & D. Bollier);
  • “Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice: Foundational Reflections,” 9 Vt. J. Envtl. L. 375 (2008).

More Information

  1. ↑ http://www.commonslawproject.org/sites/default/files/weston_-_the_theoretical_foundations_of_intergenerational_ecological_justice.pdf
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