Anita Margrethe Halvorssen is from Norway. She is an international lawyer, author, TEDx Speaker, and Director, Global Legal Solutions, LLC.
Halvorssen has focused on teaching law and writing on environmental issues, especially climate change. Her first law degree is from the University of Oslo, Norway. She has a Master of Laws and a Doctorate of the Science of Law from Columbia Law School, New York. Halvorssen taught International Law at the University of Colorado and Global Climate Change Law & Policy at University of Denver. In Norway, she was a Legal Advisor at the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment. Halvorssen is a member of the International Law and Sea Level Rise Committee of the International Law Association. She is also a member of the Authors Guild and the International Thriller Writers.
She is a certified Climate Reality Leader, and she is the contact person for the Norwegian Grandparents Climate Campaign (“Besteforeldrenes klimaaksjon”) in New York.
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Other publications by Anita Halvorssen:
Books
EQUALITY AMONG UNEQUALS IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES [Boulder, Oxford: Westview Press 1999]. Nominated for the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award 2001.
Book Chapters
The Origin and development of the International Environmental Law in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW [London, New York: Routledge 2013].
Selected Articles
Anita Halvorssen and Elisabeth Holland, “Climate change: scientific basis and status of the negotiations of the treaties,” 9 International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal 2 (2013).
“Addressing Climate Change through the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) – Using Responsible Investments to Encourage Corporations to take ESG Issues into Account in their Decision-Making,” 8 International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal 1 (2011).
“Global Response to Climate Change–From Stockholm to Copenhagen,” 85 Denv. U. L. Rev. 841 (2008).
“Common, But Differentiated Commitments in the Future Climate Change Regime – Amending the Kyoto Protocol to Include Annex C and the Annex C Mitigation Fund,” 18 Colo. J. Int’l Envtl. L. & Pol’y. 247 (2007).
*Photo by Kent Roar Nybø.