I am an Assistant Professor in Climate Change Law and Policy (with tenure) at the DCU School of Law and Government. My primary research interests are Carbon Pricing, International Maritime Transport, and Climate Change Law.
I am currently the PI of a World Bank-funded project on the implementation of carbon pricing in international shipping and of a United Nations Foundation grant on the same topic. In 2022, I was awarded a grant by the Irish Aid Enterprise Fund for International Climate Action to provide training on carbon pricing in international shipping to members of delegations to the International Maritime Organization. I am also a Funded Investigator of the SFI Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water.
My research on carbon pricing has been cited in the Financial Times (behind paywall), the Guardian, and France24, and has been awarded prizes by various institutions, including the MIT Climate CoLab (Honorable Mention), ELPAR (Honorable Mention), and the World Bank (Vice President Team Award).
My research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals (eg, Climate Policy, Journal of Environmental Law, Marine Policy) American law reviews (eg, Arizona Law Review) and policy outlets. I am one of the authors of the World Bank reports Carbon Revenues from International Shipping: Enabling an Effective and Equitable Transition, and Distributing Carbon Revenues from Shipping. I was a member of the team that wrote the World Bank flagship report State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2019.
I presented my research in various policy fora, including the International Maritime Organization, the OECD/ITF, and the World Bank.
I have an LLM from Yale Law School and a PhD in law and economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam (European Doctorate in Law and Economics). I have held visiting research positions at Cornell Law School, Copenhagen University, UC Louvain. I frequently consult for various units of the World Bank (headquarter, Washington DC).
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students wishing to research climate change law and policy – especially on topics related to fiscal policy for climate change.
Book
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2020 | Goran Dominioni (2020) Biased Trials: Insights from Behavioral Law and Economics. Wiesbaden: Springer/Gabler. [DOI] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2025 | Goran Dominioni; Beatriz Martinez-Romera (2025) 'The 2023 IMO Greenhouse Gas Strategy: Considerations of Equity'. International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, . https://doi.org/10.1163/15718085-bja10225 | |
| 2025 | Goran Dominioni; Seita Vesa (2025) 'Shaping Europe's climate neutral future: The Fit for 55 framework'. REVIEW OF EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE & INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, . [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Goran Dominioni; Christy Ann Petit (2024) 'Carbon Pricing for International Shipping and Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms: A Case for Regulatory Cooperation'. European Journal of Risk Regulation, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2024.59 | |
| 2024 | Goran Dominioni (2024) 'Carbon pricing for international shipping, equity, and WTO law'. REVIEW OF EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE & INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, . https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12540 | |
| 2024 | Jeanne Magnetti; Goran Dominioni; Bert Gordijn (2024) 'Ethics of carbon pricing – a review of the literature'. Climate Policy, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2416493 | |
| 2023 | Goran Dominioni; Dan Esty (2023) 'Designing Effective Border-Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms: Aligning the Global Trade and Climate Change Regimes'. Arizona law review, . | |
| 2023 | Goran dominioni (2023) 'Towards an equitable transition in the decarbonization of international maritime transport: Exemptions or carbon revenues?'. Marine Policy, . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105669 | |
| 2022 | Goran Dominioni; Michael Faure (2022) 'Environmental Policy in Good and Bad Times: The Countercyclical Effects of Carbon Taxes and Cap-and-Trade'. Journal of Environmental Law, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqac003 | |
| 2022 | Dominioni, G. (2022) 'Pricing carbon effectively: a pathway for higher climate change ambition'. Climate Policy, 22 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Goran Dominioni (2020) 'Motivated Reasoning and Implicit Carbon Prices: Overcoming Public Opposition to Carbon Taxes and Emissions Trading Schemes'. European Journal of Risk Regulation, . https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2020.102 | |
| 2020 | Dirk Heine, Michael G. Faure, Goran Dominioni (2020) 'The Polluter-Pays Principle in Climate Change Law: an Economic Appraisal'. Climate Law, . | |
| 2020 | Goran Dominioni, Alberto Quintavalla, Alessandro Romano (2020) 'Trust spillovers among national and European institutions'. European Union Politics, . | |
| 2020 | Alessandro Romano Chiara Sotis Goran Dominioni Sebastián Guidi (2020) 'The scale of COVID‐19 graphs affects understanding, attitudes, and policy preferences'. Health Economics, . | |
| 2019 | Goran Dominioni, Alessandro Romano, Chiara Sotis (2019) 'A quantitative study of the interactions between oil price and renewable energy sources stock prices'. Energies, . | |
| 2019 | Goran Dominioni, Dirk Heine (2019) 'Behavioural Economics and Public Support for Carbon Pricing: A Revenue Recycling Scheme to Address the Political Economy of Carbon Taxation'. European Journal of Risk Regulation, . | |
| 2019 | Goran Dominioni, Pieter Desmet, Louis Visscher (2019) 'Judges Versus Jurors: Biased Attributions in the Courtroom'. Cornell International Law Journal, . | |
| 2018 | Goran Dominioni, Dirk Heine, Beatriz Martinez Romera (2018) 'Regional carbon pricing for international maritime transport: challenges and opportunities for global geographical coverage'. Carbon & Climate Law Review, . | |
| 2018 | Goran Dominioni, Addolorata Marasco, Alessandro Romano (2018) 'A mathematical approach to study and forecast racial groups interactions: deterministic modeling and scenario method'. Quality and Quantity, . |
Published Report
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | Goran Dominioni; Isabelle Rojon; Rico Salgmann; Dominik Englert; Cait Gleeson; Sotiria Lagouvardou (2023) Distributing Carbon Revenues from Shipping. World Bank, . [Link] | |
| 2022 | Goran Dominioni; Dominik Englert (2022) Carbon Revenues From International Shipping : Enabling an Effective and Equitable Energy Transition. World Bank, . [Link] | |
| 2022 | Goran Dominioni; Dominik Englert; Rico Salgmann; Jennifer Brown (2022) Carbon Revenues From International Shipping : Enabling an Effective and Equitable Energy Transition - Summary for Policymakers. World Bank, . [Link] | |
| 2021 | Goran Dominioni (2021) WTO Law compatibility of a ‘feebate’ scheme on imported products. World Bank, . |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2024 | Edoardo Celeste and Goran Dominioni (2024) 'Digital and green: reconciling the EU twin transitions in times of war and energy crisis' In: Research Handbook on Post-Pandemic EU Economic Governance & NGEU Law. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar. [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Goran Dominioni; Evangelia Nissioti (2021) 'Implicit Biases in Trial Settings' In: Encyclopedia of law and economics. New York : Springer. | |
| 2018 | Goran Dominioni, Alessandro Romano (2018) 'Trial (Implicit Biases)' In: Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. New York : Spinger. |
Other Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2024 | Goran Dominioni; Dan Esty (2024) 'Designing Effective Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms: Aligning the Global Trade and Climate Change Regimes' Environmental Law Reporter, 54 (8) . [Link] | |
| 2017 | Goran Dominioni (2017) 'Biased Damages Awards: Gender and Race Discrimination in Tort Trials' . |
Conference Publication
Online Article
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2020 | Barnat et al. (2020) Why and how to measure international transport costs. ELEA [Link] |