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Dr. Pavel specialises in political philosophy and the history of political thought. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University and served as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Virginia and and the University of Arizona. While at King’s, she has directed the Philosophy Politics, and Economics programme, contributing to its re-design.   Dr Pavel’s first book, entitled Divided Sovereignty, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. Her latest, Law Beyond the State, was published at the end of last year and focuses on the reasons we have to develop international law and the appropriate scope of its authority over sovereign states. It examines under what conditions international law is compatible with the sovereignty claims of constitutional democracies and lays out tentatives guidelines for what she calls “Global Constitutionalism”.  

Re-configuring our systems of international governance and accountability is a crucial part of what William E. Rees has labeled bio-cultural adaptation. That is why this conversation with Dr. Pavel, and her book - law beyond the state - it so relevant to the moment at hand.

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Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. 

From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President's Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and has advised officials at the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank, and many nations on issues of law and public policy. He serves as an adviser to the Behavioural Insights Team in the United Kingdom. He is currently employed by the Department of Homeland Security to work on the Biden Administration's climate and immigration policies.

Dr. Pencheon is the founder and ex-director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit (England) which today coordinates the world’s most ambitious initiative to make healthcare sustainable.  He helped to found the Unit in April 2008 and has been the author of innumerable leading academic reports, articles, book chapters, and a book on sustainable healthcare. In 2012 he was awarded an order of the British Empire award for services to public health and the NHS. Today he is an associate and honorary professor at the University of Exeter.

Mr. Randal O'Toole is is an American public policy analyst, a senior fellow of the CATO institute, and a former visiting scholar at Yale, Berkeley, and Utah State University. He is the founder of the Thoreau institute and the author of the Antiplanner (ti.org).

Professor Mary Wood, a distinguished Philip H. Knight Professor, the Faculty Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center of the University of Oregon, and the author of Nature’s Trust. Her groundbreaking book proposes a paradigm shift in environmental law, based an application of public trust doctrine, by which natural resources (including a carbon-stable atmosphere) are owned by all citizens equally as a trust asset, and the view that the government is a trustee with a restorative duty not only to prevent future damage, but also to repair past harms. Prof. Wood has been involved in several environmental litigations suites, inspiring the legal action undertaken by the non-profit organization “Our Children’s Trust”. Her views on environmental law are as compelling as her influence in the legal arena may prove transformative.