Ermanno Napolitano
Ermanno is also a doctoral student at McGill’s Faculty of Law, where he studies as a Vanier Scholar (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) under the supervision of Professor Richard Janda. Ermanno’s thesis deepens the legal understanding of geoengineering, intended as the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the earth’s atmosphere to reduce global warming. A recent return to nationalist currents makes plausible the hypothesis that geoengineering may arise under a unilateral state of exception to international law, however misguided and imprudent. His thesis explores the legal principles that should govern geoengineering research and its potential deployment, and how the possibility of legitimizing such a deployment could be produced within a sound legal framework and without giving way to unilateral actions.