


Online 115 (2011) HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace Maxine Burkett, Climate Justice and the Elusive Climate Tort, 121 Yale L. Maxine Burkett, ‘Drowning Nations’ Threaten New 21st Century Statelessness, ALERTNET, August 23, 2011. Maxine Burkett, Climate-Induced Migration: Is there a there there?, 3 Climate Law 314 (2012). Maxine Burkett, Litigating Climate Change Adaptation: Theory, Practice, and Corrective (Climate) Justice, 42 Env. Maxine Burkett, Duty and Breach in an Era of Uncertainty: Local Government Liability for Failure to Adapt to Climate Change, 20 George Mason L. Maxine Burkett, A Justice Paradox: On Climate Change, Small Island Developing States, and the Quest for Effective Legal Remedy, 35 U. Maxine Burkett, Loss and Damage, 4 Climate Law 119 (2014). Maxine Burkett, Rehabilitation: A Proposal for a Climate Compensation Mechanism for Small Island States, 13 Santa Clara J. Maxine Burkett, Lessons from Contemporary Resettlement in the South Pacific, Columbia J. Ziervogel, Addressing the Risk of Maladaptation to Climate Change, WIREs Clim. Maxine Burkett, Justice and Contemporary Climate Relocation: An Addendum to Words of Caution on ‘Climate Refugees’, NEW SECURITY BEAT, August 2016. Yamada Seiji, Burkett Maxine, and Maskarinec Gregory G., Sea-Level Rise and the Marshallese Diaspora , Environmental Justice. HeinOnline | SSRN | ScholarSpace | ScholarSpace Maxine Burkett, Reading Between Two Red Lines: Loss and Damage and the Paris Outcome, 6 Climate Law 118 (2016). Maxine Burkett, Climate Disobedience, 27 Duke Envtl. Maxine Burkett, Jainey Bavishi, and Erin Shew, Climate Displacement, Migration, and Relocation-And the United States, 7 Climate Law 227 (2017). Maxine Burkett, Behind the Veil: Climate Migration, Regime Shift, and a New Theory of Justice, 53 Harv. Prior to her appointment at the University of Hawai‘i, Burkett was an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School. Professor Burkett is also a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform and the American Law Institute. Professor Burkett serves on the boards of the Global Greengrants Fund, ELAW, and the Blue Planet Foundation and is a member of the Independent Advisory Committee on Applied Climate Assessment (formerly the Federal Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment). She was a White House Intern, an Omidyar Fellow, a 2016 recipient of Pacific Business News’ 40 Under 40 award, and a 2017 awardee of Hawaii Business Magazine’s 20 for the Next 20. She served as a law clerk for The Honorable Susan Illston of the United States District Court, Northern District of California. She also attended Exeter College, Oxford University and received her law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Williams College, which awarded her the Bicentennial Medal for Distinguished Achievement in 2016. She is currently the co-founder and director of the Institute for Climate and Peace. She directed the completion of several adaptation related policy documents, outreach and education programs, and decision-maker support efforts for Hawai‘i and other Pacific Island nations. As the Director of ICAP, she led numerous projects to address climate change policy and planning for island communities globally. Burkett is the youngest recipient of the Chair.įrom 2009-2012, Professor Burkett also served as the inaugural Director of the Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy (ICAP). Other Wayne Morse Chairs include Charles Ogletree, Jr., Vandana Shiva, Barbara Ehrenreich, and former Senator Russ Feingold. In 2010, Burkett served as the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics at the Wayne Morse Center, University of Oregon, for the Center’s “Climate Ethics and Climate Equity” theme of inquiry.

She has been cited in numerous news and policy outlets, including BBC Radio, the New York Times, the Washington Post, International Business Times, and Nature Climate Change. Professor Burkett has presented her research throughout the United States and in West Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and the Caribbean. At Richardson, she teaches Climate Change Law and Policy, Torts, Ocean and Coastal Law, and International Law.Īn expert in the law and policy of climate change, she has written extensively in diverse areas of climate change law with a particular focus on climate justice-exploring policy responses to climate change’s impacts on vulnerable communities in the United States and globally. Richardson School of Law and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Maxine Burkett is a Professor of Law at the William S.
