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How can lawyers and Indigenous legal knowledge holders use the power of law to fight for environmental justice, human rights to a healthy environment and the rights of non-human beings and ecosystems?
The First Annual Green Rights & Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy and Inspirathon seeks to inform and inspire interested people around the world about the role of law in securing environmental rights and justice.
This innovative program mobilizes the power of stories to bring issues of environmental rights and justice to life and inspire action, as nine courageous “Warrior Lawyers” from around the world share their stories of advancing “Green Rights” through (or sometimes despite) law.
Join us for Day 3 of the Academy, featuring:
- Steven Donziger, attorney for the Ecuadorean plaintiffs in the Chevron Toxico saga (USA)
- Cormac Cullinan, lawyer and pioneer of Wild Law and Earth Jurisprudence (South Africa)
- Chima Williams, lawyer, Goldman Prize winner and Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (Nigeria)
- Jacinta Ruru, Māori legal scholar, University of Otago (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Each talk will be followed by a space-limited, informal "at the kitchen table" chat in which a small number of interested audience members who have signed up in advance can engage in a relaxed virtual conversation with the Warrior Lawyer who has just given a public talk. Spaces will be assigned first come, first served. These informal sessions will not be recorded.
You may attend as many talks as you wish. Advance registration is required for live attendance.
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