Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World,by Thant Myint-U,Published by W.W. Norton & Company (2025)Rating: *****​ History as Lives Lived History, at its best, arrives not through timelines but through lives. In my primary and middle school, we were taught the 1960s through Indira Gandhi's steely gaze or the grainy footage of moon landings; the United Nations appeared, if at all, as a backdrop to superpower posturing.

The Correspondent,by Virginia Evans,Published by Penguin Random House (2025)​Rating: *** (really, 3.7) A life written in letters Sybil Van Antwerp has spent most of her life doing what the title promises: corresponding. Most mornings, around half past ten, she sits down to write letters to family, to friends, to a university president who will not let her audit a class, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry, and to one person who never actually receives what she drafts.

By Harro van Asselt, Hatton Professor of Climate Law, Department of Land Economy and Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge; and Tejas Rao, PhD Researcher, Department of Land Economy, University of Camb...

Application deadline: 27th October 2025.

This report surveys key developments in 2024, and one development in 2023, across the non-compliance procedures of several multilateral environmental agree

For the last six years, together with a handful of colleagues and friends from around the world, we have worked with the Government of Vanuatu to develop and implement a legal strategy to turn the asp...

Dr Monserrat Madariaga Gomez de Cuenca and Tejas Rao publish policy brief on how procedural inequities are undermining global climate action

Shall we dance, my friends? Shall we play that agonizing game of waiting to take to the dance floor when the music is playing in the background? Shall we pretend we don’t hear the melody call…