Launching our Working Paper Series

We just launched a Working Paper Series on SSRN with the goal of disseminating our research more widely within the legal academic community. Our series currently consists of 10 papers and  includes some very recent pieces produced by our teammates and affiliates, including:

• A survey of 516 legal academics regarding their views on the protection of future generations, the ability of law to influence the long-term future, and specific areas of law and sources of risk—the largest ever survey of legal academia in the English-speaking world on substantive legal questions, and

• A paper presenting a chronology of the constitutionalization of future generations, together with an assessment of the strength of these constitutional provisions and an analysis of their de jure intensity and de facto repercussions.

Upcoming talks in our Legal Priorities Lab

We have several talks coming up as part of our Legal Priorities Lab.

You can find all details and register on our Eventbrite page.

Other news

• Cate Hall joined as Visiting Research Fellow for three months.

• The World Lawyers’ Pledge on Climate Action and the Environmental Law Institute featured a blog post we wrote on the implications of our survey for climate change law (1, 2).

Open positions

• Various research roles at Rethink Priorities

• Various leadership roles at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and an internship (applications due October 20)

• Political Affairs Intern at the UN Office at Geneva, Office for Disarmament Affairs

• Open calls for advice and collaboration at the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

• Many more policy-related roles on the 80,000 Hours job board