International Economic Law
WTO law, non-discrimination, environmental exceptions, and the interaction between trade disciplines and contemporary climate regulation.
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Ali Dehghan Saee
International Economic Law · Climate Governance · Regulatory Pluralism
I am a researcher working at the intersection of international economic law and climate governance. My research examines how climate objectives are increasingly incorporated into the legal and institutional conditions governing market access, regulatory recognition, and economic participation.
Law, markets and governance under ecological constraint.
About
Ali Dehghan Saee is a researcher in international economic law and climate governance, with an interdisciplinary background spanning law, economics, energy, and engineering. His research examines how legal systems respond to the growing incorporation of climate objectives into economic regulation.
His broader research programme investigates how economic openness can be reconciled with ecological constraint while preserving non-discrimination, regulatory diversity, institutional legitimacy, and fairness across jurisdictions with unequal capacities.
Research
Research Areas
Climate-Conditioned Economic Governance
How economic consequences are increasingly conditioned on verifiable climate-related criteria, and how such mechanisms can remain legitimate and even-handed.
Carbon Border Measures
EU CBAM, emerging UK carbon-border regulation, WTO compatibility, regulatory equivalence, climate justice, and differentiated burdens.
Regulatory Pluralism & Climate Federalism
Minimum standards, equivalence, substitution, and differentiated regulatory implementation across jurisdictions.
Selected work
Publications & Manuscripts
Climate-Conditioned Economic Governance
Reconfiguring Openness in Global Environmental Governance
Climate-Conditioned Economic Governance
A Comparative Framework for Regulatory Legitimacy
Equal Rules, Unequal Burdens
Differentiation without Discrimination in Carbon Border Measures
Climate Federalism as Regulatory Pluralism
Minimum Standards, Equivalence and Economic Governance in Canada
From EU CBAM to UK CBAM
Regulatory Convergence, Divergence and the Emerging Law of Carbon Borders
Research programme
Current Research
Climate-Conditioned Economic Governance
A theoretical account of how climate objectives are becoming embedded within the institutional architecture of economic governance.
Differentiation without Discrimination
Reconciling climate-related differentiation with international economic law through regulatory equivalence, capacity sensitivity, and procedural fairness.
Climate Federalism as Regulatory Pluralism
Examining Canadian climate federalism through minimum standards, equivalence, regulatory recognition, and substitution.
The Emerging Law of Carbon Borders
A comparative analysis of EU and UK carbon-border regimes and their contribution to a broader transnational legal architecture.
Background
Education
LLM in International Trade Law
Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch
LLB
Islamic Azad University, Urmia Branch
MSc Gas Engineering and Management
University of Salford, United Kingdom
MA Economics
Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch
BSc Chemical Engineering
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
Research Interests
Curriculum Vitae
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