欧美高清

Doctor Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann

Senior Lecturer

Law

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Personal statement

I am an academic at the 欧美高清 Law School, whose main area of expertise is international and EU environmental law. 聽As a researcher, my main interest lies in assessing how legal systems, from global and comparative perspectives, interact and contribute to, or hinder, more sustainable patterns of social reproduction. are important perspectives to my teaching and research.
My recent work is developing along two specific lines of research. One focuses on the subjectivisation of ecosystems and Nature as an emerging trend in comparative environmental law. Another seeks to develop critical, socio-legal perspectives on the complex relationship between , which is a globally burgeoning economic sector with major -increasingly contested- social and environmental impacts.
More generally, I have an established track-record of published research about the compliance with and enforcement of international environmental law and, more specifically, of multilateral environmental treaties. My recent publications in this field discuss the respective .
After joining the 欧美高清 Law School, I have also engaged extensively in knowledge exchange activities. These have focused on the , as well as the . I have also collaborated with the UN Environment Programme for the development of CPD materials on the international legal framework for the protection of the ozone layer.

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
31/10/2013

Qualifications

PhD, University of Barcelona

LLM, University of Barcelona

Dipl么me des Hautes 脡tudes Europ茅enes et Internationales, Institut Europ茅en des Hautes 脡tudes Internationales (Nice, France)

LLB, University of Barcelona

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Publications

脕lvarez Verdugo Milagros, Bel Germ脿, , Donaire Benito Jos茅 A
Papeles de Econom铆a Espa帽ola Vol 185, pp. 140-155 (2025)
Derecho internacional del medio ambiente (2025) (2025)
Tourism and Sustainability? (2025)
Tourism and Sustainability?, pp. 1-18 (2025)
Offor Iyan,
Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Law (2024) (2024)
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2024 ESIL Research Forum on "Revisiting Interactions between Legal Orders" (2024)

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Teaching

At PGT level, I lead or co-lead the following subjects within the LLM in Global Environmental Law and Governance:

  • Global Environmental Law: Issues of Equity and Sustainability (with Dr Saskia Vermeylen)
  • Public International Law & the Environment
  • EU Environmental Law

I also contribute to modules such as 鈥楨nvironmental Treaties: Fragmentation and Regime Interactions鈥, 鈥楩isheries Law and Sustainability鈥, and 鈥楤lue Economy and International Law鈥.

At undergraduate level, I lead the LLB Graduate Entry and Part-time programmes. I teach the 'Environmental Law (Hons)' fourth year module. I have also designed and lead the new 2nd and 3rd year elective 'An Introduction to Environmental Law'.聽

In the past years, I have also lectured Public International Law and led tutorials in Public Law.

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Research Interests

Global law, Public International law, EU law, comparative law, decoloniality, rights of Nature, global justice, Anthropocene

Sustainability and tourism, critical tourism studies

Regime interactions, compliance with and enforcement of multilateral environmental treaties, transnational environmental crime

EU environmental law, external environmental policy of the EU

Brexit and environmental law and governance in Scotland

Professional Activities

Peer reviewer
2026
Visiting researcher
3/7/2025
Organiser
5/6/2025
Member
4/2025
Participant
11/3/2025
Participant
11/3/2025

Projects

Cardesa-Salzmann, Antonio (Principal Investigator) Ntona, Maria (Principal Investigator)
This project is funded by the University's International Stategic Patnership Fund. It seeks to lay the ground for a larger funding bid for a collaborative research project on Sustainable Tourism from a socio-legal perspective with academic and non-academic partners. It builds on existing academic networks and initial expressions of interest with decision-makers, stakeholders in the tourism sector, and civil society organisations.
Tourism is a multifaceted economic sector, whose relevance and impact cuts across jurisdictions and levels of governance. Ensuring the sector鈥檚 sustainability is a challenging endeavour, requiring a complex approach to regulation and decision-making. Yet scholarship on sustainable tourism is sorely lacking in legal perspectives, including ones of a critical, comparative, and interdisciplinary nature.
Planned activities aim at filling this critical knowledge gap. They aim to bring together a diverse team of academics, stakeholders and decision-makers, based in Scotland and abroad, and invite them to co-produce an agenda for future socio-legal impact-driven research on sustainable tourism.
14-Jan-2024 - 15-Jan-2025
Huici Sancho, Laura (Principal Investigator) 脕lvarez Verdugo, Milagros (Principal Investigator) Cardesa-Salzmann, Antonio (Researcher)
01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2026
Cardesa-Salzmann, Antonio (Principal Investigator)
20-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
Cardesa-Salzmann, Antonio (Principal Investigator) McCorkindale, Christopher (Co-investigator) McEntee, Iona (Post Grad Student)
National courts and North-South legal ecumenism. Exploring the role of transnational inter-judicial dialogue between the Global North and the Global South for the promotion of climate justice. PGR Student: Iona McEntee
01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2024
Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Portes Virginio, Francis (Researcher) Cardesa-Salzmann, Antonio (Researcher)
UKRI sponsored extension of projects affected by Covid-19
01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
Cardesa-Salzmann, Antonio (Principal Investigator) Campbell, Donald (Co-investigator)
09-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2018

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Contact

Doctor Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann
Senior Lecturer
Law

Email: antonio.cardesa-salzmann@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3330