dr. I. Ibrahim (Imad)

Imad Antoine Ibrahim is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Law & Governance at Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM), Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS).

He has been working on global issues from a legal perspective for the last decade. He is currently involved in several projects in places such as Europe, South Africa, MENA region, Central Asia, and China.

In the past, he was a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Gas Research and Utilization (CIGRU) & Institute of Water Security and Science (IWSS), West Virginia University, United States; a visiting researcher at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), Washington, DC, United States, a Junior Fellow in the Global Research Network Think Tank, United Kingdom and an Early Stage Researcher at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT), Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

He was also a resident research fellow at the Center for United Nations Constitutional Research – CUNCR, Brussels, Belgium and an Energy policy expert at the Lebanese Oil & Gas Initiative – LOGI, Beirut, Lebanon. He worked as an EU Commission Marie Curie Fellow at Tsinghua University School of Law, THCEREL—Center for Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Law, at the CRAES—Chinese Research Academy on Environmental Sciences in Beijing (China) and at the Business School, Research Center for Climate Change and Trade and at Beijing Normal University.

He worked as a researcher in several European and Italian institutes and universities such as the University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) and Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Novara. He was a trainee lawyer at Al Jad Law Firm reviewing international conventions related to energy.

He holds a Phd in Law from the Institute of Law, Politics and Development (DIRPOLIS), Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy; a Master in European Interdisciplinary Studies, from the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, and a Bachelor in Law from the Lebanese University “Filiere Francophone de Droit”, Beirut, Lebanon.

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM)

Ibrahim's research focuses on the interplay between environmental law and disruptive technologies (Artificial Intelligence, Big data, Blockchain...). He is an expert in water law, energy law and agriculture that he combines together in the context of Water-Energy-Food nexus. Overall, his research covers the following areas:

Natural Resources Law (Water, Energy, food and agriculture); International Public Law; Climate Change and Environmental Law; Technology Law (including Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Blockchain), Environmental Protection and Sustainability; International Space Law; International Trade (including Non-Trade Concerns) and Intellectual Property Rights; International Human Rights law; International Organizations; Financial Technology & European Union Law; Fourth Industrial Revolution and Sustainable Development; International Business Law

Ibrahim, I. A. (2023). The Fallacy of Disruptive Technologies and the Primacy of Politics: Sustainable Development Goals as an Example. In Technology and Sustainable Development (pp. 189-201). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003325086-14

Farah, P. D. , & Ibrahim, I. (2022). Water-energy-food nexus in international law: a legal analysis. In F. Brouwer (Ed.), Handbook on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus (pp. 381-397). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100550.00030

Ibrahim, I., Brown, R., & Truby, J. (2022). Big Data Analytics and Its Impact on Basin Water Agreements and International Water Law: A Study of the Ramotswa Aquifer. (Brill Research Perspectives in International Water Law). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507623_002

Truby, J., Brown, R. D., Dahdal, A. , & Ibrahim, I. (2022). Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin. Energy Research and Social Science, 88, [102499]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102499

Truby, J., Brown, R. D. , Ibrahim, I. A., & Parellada, O. C. (2022). A Sandbox Approach to Regulating High-Risk Artificial Intelligence Applications. European journal of risk regulation, 13(2), 270-294. https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2021.52

Truby, J., Dahdal, A. , & Ibrahim, I. A. (2022). Sandboxes in the desert: is a cross-border ‘gulf box’ feasible? Law, innovation and technology, 14(2), 447-473. https://doi.org/10.1080/17579961.2022.2113674

Ibrahim, I. A. (2022). Draft legal framework for shared water resources in the Arab World: is it really needed? Water international, 47(4), 512-539. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2021.1997544

Brown, R., Truby, J. , & Ibrahim, I. A. (2022). Mending Lacunas in the EU’s GDPR and Proposed Artificial Intelligence Regulation. European Studies: The Review of European Law, Economics and Politics, 9(1), 61-90. https://doi.org/10.2478/eustu-2022-0003

Ibrahim, I. A. (2022). Water as a human right, water as a commodity: can SDG6 be a compromise? International Journal of Human Rights, 26(3), 469-493. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2021.1945582

Ibrahim, I. A., & Truby, J. (2022). Governance in the era of Blockchain technology in Qatar: a roadmap and a manual for Trade Finance. Journal of banking regulation, 23(4), 419-438. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41261-021-00165-1

Ibrahim, I. A., & Zoppolato, D. G. (2021). Greening the Economy for the Sustainability Transition: An International Legal Perspective. In The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies (pp. 1649). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32811-5_115-1

Hogic, N. , & ibrahim, I. (2021). Arctic Indigenous Communities and Antarctic Icebergs as Subjects of Inter-legality. Stanford Journal of International Law, 57(1), 105-136. https://law.stanford.edu/publications/arctic-indigenous-communities-and-antarctic-icebergs-as-subjects-of-inter-legality/

ibrahim, I., Maljean-Dubois, S., & Owley, J. (2021). The Paris Agreement Compliance Mechanism: Preparing for COP 26 in Glasgow and Beyond. Wake Forest Law Review, 11, 147-160. [11].

ibrahim, I., Ötvös, T., Gilmanova, A., Rocca, E., Ghanem, C., & Wanat, M. (2021). International Energy Agency. Wolters Kluwer. https://kluwerlawonline.com/EncyclopediaChapter/IEL+Intergovernmental+Organizations/IGO20200001

Xie, L. , & Ibrahim, I. A. (2021). Is the ecosystem approach effective in transboundary water systems: Central Asia as a case study? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 8(5), [e1542]. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1542

Antoine Ibrahim, I. (2021). Legal tools for addressing uncertainty and managing risks in the energy sector: Is there a role for international disaster law? Journal of World Energy Law and Business, 14(3), 163-175. https://doi.org/10.1093/jwelb/jwab013

Bruch, C. , Ibrahim, I., & Lerner, R. (2020). Greenish, but with More Dimensions: A Framework for Identifying Binding Instruments of International Environmental Law. Georgetown Environmental Law Review, 32, 485-514.

Koskina, A., Farah, P. D. , & Ibrahim, I. A. (2020). Trade in clean energy technologies: Sliding from protection to protectionism through obligations for technology transfer in climate change law, or Vice Versa? Journal of World Energy Law and Business, 13(2), 114-128. https://doi.org/10.1093/JWELB/JWAA013

Ibrahim, I. A. (2020). Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Groundwater: Can the Nexus Support the Sustainable Management of Transboundary Aquifers? In V. Mauerhofer, D. Rupo, & L. Tarquinio (Eds.), Sustainability and Law: General and Specific Aspects (pp. 709-728). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42630-9_34

Ibrahim, I. A. (2020). Water governance in the Mekong after the Watercourses Convention 35th ratification: Multilateral or bilateral approach? International journal of water resources development, 36(1), 200-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2019.1636769

Ibrahim, I. A. (2020). Legal Implications of the Use of Big Data in the Transboundary Water Context. Water resources management, 34(3), 1139-1153. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-020-02491-x

Ibrahim, I. A. (2019). Financing Projects for Improving Climate Change Resilience: The Cases of Djibouti and Yemen. In Handbook of Climate Change Resilience (pp. 1357-1375). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71025-9_30-1

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Law part of IBA HOLI
MEEM Sustainability & Law
HTHT minor
Industry 4.0 Regulation
Regulating Robotics and Drones / Smart rules & regimes
Law and Technology
Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Natural Resources Law

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