Jason J. Czarnezki, holds his Inauguration Lecture for the 2020 Olof Palme Guest Professorship. 

Professor Czarnezki will endeavor to broaden our understanding of peace and welfare to include ecological resilience in the Anthropocene, arguing that there cannot be global security without a healthy environment. He will discuss the significant challenges law and public policy face in accounting for large scale disruptions due to climate change including mass migration, food insecurity, natural disasters, and the breakdown of the civil society. 

Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law Chair and is Associate Dean of Environmental Law Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University (New York, USA). 

Prior to joining the Pace Law faculty, Professor Czarnezki was formerly Professor of Law in the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School and director of the U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law. 

Professor Czarnezki has served as a J. William Fulbright Scholar at Sun Yat-sen
University in Guangzhou, China. He has also held academic appointments the Yale
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, and Uppsala Universitet Faculty of Law.