Christina Voigt, Dr. juris (Norway), LL.M. (Envir), is a Legal Research Fellow with the CISDL, a post doctoral Research Fellow, and Lecturer at the Department of Public and International law, University of Oslo, Norway. She obtained the First (Universität Passau, 1996) and Second (1999) German Legal State Examination, holds a Master of Laws in Environmental Law, LL.M. (Envir), from the University of Auckland, New Zealand (2002), and received a doctorate in law from the University of Oslo in 2007. She teaches international and national environmental law, climate change law and policy as well as public international law. Her current postdoctoral research focuses on ‘Safeguarding the Environmental Integrity of the Global Carbon Market – The Example of the CDM’.

Her recent publications include ‘Responsibility for Environmental Integrity of the CDM: Judicial Review of EB Decisions’, in: D. Freestone and C. Streck (eds.) Legal Aspects of Carbon Trading: Kyoto, Copenhagen and Beyond (Oxford University Press: forthcoming in 2009); ‘The Deadlock of the Clean Development Mechanism: Caught between Sustainability, Environmental Integrity and Economic Efficiency’, in: B. Richardson, S. Wood, H. McLeod-Kilmurray and Y. Le Bouthillier (eds.) Climate Law and Developing Countries: Legal and Policy - Challenges for the World Community (Edward Elgar: forthcoming in 2009); ‘Security in a ‘Warmer World’: Competences of the UN Security Council for Preventing Dangerous Climate Change’, in: C. Bailliet (ed.) Security: A Multidisciplinary Normative Approach (Brill Publishers, Leiden: forthcoming in 2009); ‘State Responsibility and Climate Change Damages’ (2008) 77 Nordic Journal of International Law Nr.1-2, 1-22; ‘Climate Change and the Mandate of Sustainable Development’ in: H. Ch. Bugge and Ch. Voigt (eds.) Sustainable Development in National and International Law – What did the Brundtland Report do to Legal Thinking and Development (2008) Europa Law Publishing, 545-572; ‘WTO Law and International Emissions Trading: Is there Potential for Conflict?’ (2008) 1 Carbon & Climate Law Review, 52-64. Reprinted in: (2008) 4 Environmental Liability, 136-147; ’Is the Clean Development Mechanism Sustainable? Some Critical Aspects’ (2008) 8 Sustainable Development Law and Policy 2, 15-21; and ‘Sustainable Development as a Principle of International Law - Resolving Conflicts between Climate Measures and WTO Law’ (2009) (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers).