Charlotte E. Blattner is co-founder and editor at Climate&Law. She works as a senior lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Public Law, University of Berne, Switzerland, where she deals with the complex and urgent challenges that climate change poses to Swiss constitutional and administrative law as part of her habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification). In addition, she operates as a Research Group Leader at the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR).
Charlotte Blattner studied law at the University of Basel, specializing in international law and international trade and economic law. Following her studies, she gained practical experience working at various civil courts and worked as a research assistant at the Swiss Center of Expertise in Human Rights (SCHR) at the University of Zurich. Charlotte Blattner obtained her doctorate in 2016 at the interface of international and animal law as part of the doctoral program “Law and Animals” at the University of Basel. Her dissertation project “Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalization” was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) with a Doc.CH-Grant and published open access by Oxford University Press in 2019.
From 2017-2018, Charlotte Blattner researched and taught as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, under the guidance of Prof. Will Kymlicka. This research led to the publication of the book “Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice?“, which she published together with Kendra Coulter and Will Kymlicka at Oxford University Press in 2020. From 2018-2020, Charlotte Blattner worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Law School on a project titled “Environmental Law Beyond Anthropocentrism,” which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation through an Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship. In parallel, she deepened her expertise in environmental law, “law and social change,” and empirical legal methodology during her LL.M. studies at Harvard Law School.
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