Jolene Lin

Jolene Lin is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong, where she has taught environmental law since 2007. Her research interests lie in climate change law and she is currently writing a monograph on the role of cities as transnational climate change governance actors. Her work has been published in, inter alia, the European Journal of International Law, Legal Studies and the Journal of Environmental Law. She is a member of the editorial boards of Transnational Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press) and Climate Law (Brill). She has been a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia and the National University of Singapore, and served as a consultant to the Hong Kong Department of Justice, Singapore’s Ministry of Environment, international NGOs, the United Nations Environment Programme, and global law firms. Jolene holds an LLB from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an LLM from New York University School of Law, and is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. 

Papers and Publications

• The First Successful Climate Negligence Case: A Comment on Urgenda Foundation v The State of the Netherlands (Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment) (2015) Volume 5(1) Climate Law pp. 65-81
• Carbon Credits as EU like it: Property, Immunity, Tragico2medy?(2015) Volume 27(3) Journal of Environmental Law pp. 377-404 (Co-authored with Kelvin FK Low, received an Honorable Mention for the 2015 Richard Macrory Prize for the Best Article in the Journal of Environmental Law)
• Litigating Climate Change in Asia (2014) Volume 4 Climate Law pp. 140-149
• Governing Biofuels: A Principal-Agent Analysis of the European Union Biofuels Certification Regime and the Clean Development Mechanism (2012) Volume 24(1) Journal of Environmental Law pp. 43-73
• Climate Change and the Courts (2012) Volume 32(1) Legal Studies pp. 35-57
• The Emergence of Transnational Environmental Law in “Reimagining Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene” (Louis J. Kotze (ed), Hart Publishing, 2017)
• Climate Change Litigation in Asia and the Pacific in Research Handbook on Climate Change Mitigation Law, Van Calster, Vandenberghe and Reins (eds.), Edward Elgar, 2014
• Climate Governance in China: Using the “Iron Hand” in “Local Climate Change Law: Environmental Regulation in Cities and other Localities”, Benjamin J. Richardson (ed.), Edward Elgar, 2012.
• Environmental Law and Policy in China: Responding to Climate Change in “The Development of the Chinese Legal System: Changes and Challenges”, G. Yu (ed.), Routledge, 2010
• Making Markets Work: A Review of CDM Performance and the Need for Reform (2008) Volume 19(2) European Journal of International Law pp. 409-442 (Co-authored with Charlotte Streck)