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4 Climate L. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/climatla4 and id is 1 raw text is: CLIMATE LAW 4 (2014) 1-3 \ Law BRILL NIJHOFF brill.com/cI1a Introduction to the Special Issue: The State of Climate Law, 2014 David Freestone and Alexander Zahar We are delighted to be re-launching Climate Law, now published under the Brill imprint, with this Special Issue that collects together the views of a number of leading scholars on the state of climate law twenty years after the coming into force of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The first issue of Climate Law was put together during the Copenhagen Conference of the Parties at the end of 2009 and was published shortly there- after. Altogether, three volumes (io issues) of the journal were published in the 2010-2012 period by ios Press. Although the journal was well received in academic circles, it never realized its full potential, and so, in 2013, discussions were held to transfer the publica- tion to Brill-a more established legal publisher. In parallel, the journal's Editorial Board was restructured and revitalized. In addition to the Editorial Board, it was decided to establish an Editorial Advisory Committee, to be chaired by Professor Robert Glicksman of George Washington University Law School. He recruited a group of highly distinguished legal scholars to add to the already distinguished board. The task of the Advisory Committee is to advise the Editor at a more strategic level. This Special Issue is the first fruit of the work of the Advisory Committee, and we look forward to continuing to draw on the experience and enthusiasm of its members in the years ahead. Although now bearing the imprint of a new publisher, the aim of thejournal has not changed: It is to provide an international audience with the best peer-reviewed research and thinking about climate change law in the English language. It has to be admitted that, as an academic specialization, climate change law is still finding its bearings. While there is a very rich and vibrant climate- policy debate, the legal dimension has tended to be something of a poor rela- tion. At the international level, the UN Framework Convention establishes an obligation to prevent dangerous climate change. In pursuance of this aim, wealthy states, collectively, are legally obliged to reduce their greenhouse @ KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2014 DOI 10.1163/18786561-00402001

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