Alexander Stanley
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Doctoral Candidate
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Research interests
- Governance approaches for coping with the deep uncertainty and variability of climate change in comparative perspective
Short CV
Alex Stanley studied double bachelor degrees in law and environmental policy & management at the University of Adelaide, Australia. After working in legal practice for 3 years, he returned to academia to study an interdisciplinary master’s of environmental sciences at the University of Vienna, where he wrote his MSc thesis on a quantitative textual analysis of the international legal regimes for ozone (Montreal Protocol) and climate (Kyoto Protocol/Paris Agreement) protection. In his doctoral studies within the Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change and Society” (Project B5), Alex focuses on how public law and legal actors deal with situations of deep uncertainty in the context of climate change, with a focus on cities and multilevel climate governance in Germany and the USA. He has broad research interests, including traditional legal research (hermeneutics, document and case analysis, comparative law), quantitative text analysis, behaviourally-informed regulation, and decision-making under deep uncertainty (DMDU).