Victor M. Tafur

Adjunct Professor Victor Tafur practices in the fields of environmental and sustainable development law, energy law, land use law, and international environmental law, as well as arbitration and conflict resolution in these areas. He is the Associate Executive Governor and the Representative to the United Nations in New York of the International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL) - Secretariat located at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain – a world-wide association of senior environmental law experts founded in 1969.

Professor Tafur is admitted to practice law in the United States in New York (2002) and the U.S. Federal courts in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (2009), as well as in the Republic of Colombia (1989).

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• JD, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia)
• LLM, SJD, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

• Energy Law and Regulation LAW 689
• United Nations Environmental Diplomacy Practicum & Seminar LAW 602

Books and Chapters in Books:

• Sustainable Energy Law in Latin America, Pace University School of Law, 2006 (Doctoral dissertation)
• “Case Study: Colombia” in UNEP GUIDE TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY LAWS (A Sequel to the 2007 UNEP Handbook for Legal Draftsmen on Environmentally Sound Management of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy), UNEP, 2016
• “Biofuels in Colombia: 2000-2014” in THE LAW AND POLICY OF BIOFUELS (IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (Annette Cowie, Yves Le Bouthillier, Paul Martin, Heather McLeod-Kilmurray, Editors) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016)
• “Legal Frameworks for Emerging Technologies: Bioenergy,” in THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (United Nations University Press, 2010)
• UNEP Handbook for Legal Draftsmen on Environmentally Sound Management of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, UNEP, 2007 (Assistant Contributor)
• Compendium of Sustainable Energy Laws, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (with Nicholas A. Robinson and Richard L. Ottinger, Editors)

Selected Articles:

• Trade and Treaties, The Environmental Forum (PDF)