Alberto Costi
Alberto Costi is a Professor of Law at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. He has published widely in public international law, including use of force, the law of armed conflict, and human rights, and in international environmental law, including environmental justice, climate migration, and climate change. He has published over eighty books, book chapters and journal articles, spoken at numerous international conferences, and commented widely in the media and before parliamentary committees in these areas. Recent publications include the editorship of the first ever textbook on international law from a New Zealand perspective (Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, 2020)) as well as the joint editorship of “In the Eye of the Storm” – Reflections from the Second Pacific Climate Change Conference (SPREP, VUW and NZACL, 2020) with James Renwick. Alberto serves on the editorial board of ten journals, including Environmental Policy and Governance, the Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law and the Revue Québécoise de Droit International. He is the President of the New Zealand Association for Comparative Law, Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law and Secretary-General of the International Law Association New Zealand Branch, and sits on the New Zealand International Humanitarian Law Committee.
- Alberto Costi “Climate Emergency: When a whole nation is at risk” (1 April 2021) Newsroom, https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/when-a-nation-sinks
- Alberto Costi (General Editor) Public International Law – A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis, Wellington, 2020)
- Alberto Costi and James Renwick (Editor) “In the Eye of the Storm” – Reflections from the Second Pacific Climate Change Conference (Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and New Zealand Association for Comparative Law, Wellington, 2020), https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/law/research/publications/about-nzacl/publications/in-the-eye-of-the-storm-reflections-from-the-second-pacific-climate-change-conference
- Alberto Costi (Editor) Laws of New Zealand – International Law: Principles (Reissue 2, LexisNexis, 2016) (online) Parts I and II (Parts III and IV forthcoming 2021)
- Alberto Costi and Susy Frankel (Editors) Culture and Property: Cultural Property? (NZACL, Wellington, 2017 reved 2018)
- Alberto Costi and Nathan Ross “The Ongoing Legal Status of Low-Lying States in the Climate-Changed Future” in Caroline Morris and Petra Butler (Editors) Small States in a Legal World (Springer, Heidelberg, 2017) 101-138
- Alberto Costi “Climate Change and the Legal Status of a Disappearing State in International Law” (2014) 12 International Law Readings (Voronezh State University) 140-177
- Alberto Costi “De la Définition et du Statut des ‘Réfugiés Climatiques’: Une Première Réflexion” (2010) 16 NZACL Yearbook 489-505, https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/law/research/publications/about-nzacl/publications/nzacl-yearbooks/yearbook-16,-2010/20-Costi.pdf
- Alberto Costi and Yves-Louis Sage (Editors) Droit de l’Environnement dans le Pacifique: Problématiques et Perspectives Croisées / Environmental Law in the Pacific: International and Comparative Perspectives (NZACL/Association de Législation Comparée des Pays du Pacifique, Wellington, 2005), https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/law/research/publications/about-nzacl/publications/special-issues/hors-serie-volume-v,-2005