If you would like to have something included in next week’s announcements, please email gnhrewebsite@gmail.com and include ‘Announcements’ in the email title. We are especially interested in submissions outside of Europe and North America.

Call for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions:

International Law Weekend (‘ILW’) 2024, American Branch of the International Law Association (panel proposals)
ILW 2024 will take place October 24-26, 2024 in New York City. The ILW Organizing Committee invites panel proposals to be submitted online by May 1, 2024 through this Google form. The unifying theme for ILW 2024 is Powerless law or law for the powerless? ILW 2024 will move away from classic panel presentations and lectures and instead embrace more interactive formats like roundtables, fireside chats, practica/simulations, and other, more inclusive and interactive forms of engagement. See more here.

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal (academic articles)
The Ocean and Coastal Law Journal is excited to begin reviewing articles for Volume 30, Issues 1 and 2, for publication for Fall 2024 or later. The Ocean and Coastal Law Journal is an academic legal journal based out of the University of Maine School of Law with a focus on legal issues related to domestic and international use, management, and conservation of the sea and seashores. As a celebration of the thirtieth volume of the Ocean and Coastal Law Journal, articles related to the coastal waters and shorelines of Maine and New England will receive special consideration for Issue 1. Articles featuring discussion of environmental justice and the impact of ocean and coastal law concerns on underrepresented communities will receive special consideration for Issue 2. To be considered for publication, please send the document in Word Document format to OCLJeditor@maine.edu or submit via Scholastica by June 30, 2024 for consideration for inclusion in Issue 1. See more here.

Calls for Input:

Consultations for the 2024 reports of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to development
Covering: 1) Climate justice: Loss and damage; 2) Right to development of children and future generations.
You can register to select the most convenient the date and time out of the following options: First option: April 16, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (CEST) Second option: May 8, 2024, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (ICT) Third option: May 21, 2024, 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. (EDT)

Call for input – Killing of LGBTIQ+ persons
Purpose: To inform the report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, to be presented at the 79th session of the General Assembly. Possible avenues to respond on the basis of environmental defenders. Deadline: May 10, 2024.

Please get in touch with the GNHRE Advocacy Committee if you are interested in collaborating on any of these calls for input. 

Opportunities:

University of Copenhagen (PhD)
The Center for Climate Change Law and Governance (CLIMA) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with The Ocean Institute (Tænketanken Hav) is seeking applicants for a PhD position on the topic of ‘Reconciling the Development of Offshore Wind Energy and the Protection of the Oceans in the EU.’ We are seeking an enthusiastic and outstanding Phd candidate with a strong interest in energy, environment, oceans and climate change law. The ideal candidate must hold a relevant academic degree (in law or in another social science discipline, provided the applicant can also document sufficient knowledge in law), and possess the appropriate theoretical and methodological tools to carry out the research. Deadline: May 1, 2024. See more here.

Earthjustice (Managing Attorney or Managing Director)
Earthjustice seeks a Managing Attorney or Managing Director to lead its International Program, which works across borders to use U.S., non-U.S., and international law to protect the global environment. Drawing on deep experience in environmental, human rights, and energy law across jurisdictions around the world, and in litigation and regulatory reform, we work with partners in Africa, Asia, Australia, Latin America, and elsewhere to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and advance clean energy, defend biodiversity and the natural world, and protect human health. Most International Program team members are currently based in Earthjustice’s office in San Francisco, with others based elsewhere in the United States.  We also work with partners in some locations outside the United States. Regular travel to San Francisco is required. Deadline: May 5, 2024. See more here.

Events:

The Underworlds Series: Underworlds – Hope as Site of Global Dis/Ordering (online)
Moving beyond modernist modes of seeing and ordering the world – ways of governing often entangled with sentimental tropes of liberal hope – this event will reflect on hope as a set of sensibilities and practices of living after the end of the world. Hope is seen, in this sense, as a specific mode for dis/ordering the world and our place within it. This entails an attentiveness to the diverging onto-epistemologies that sustain varying expressions of hope, as well as the political subjectivities and forms of refusal and resistance these engender. What is the space of hope and hopelessness (or the death of hope) in a context of mass extinction and its many foreclosed futurities? Which expressions of hope (speculative, pragmatic, nihilist) can be foregrounded against the ever-receding horizon of liberal hope? Speakers: Claire Colebrook and David Chandler. Date: April 24, 2024 at 2:00PM BST. Register here.

Plastic Pollution and International Law (online)
Coinciding with the Ottawa meeting of the UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC-4), this virtual panel of experts will explore international law developments relevant to drafting a new international agreement on plastic pollution. This event is hosted by the Canadian Branch of the International Law Association and will feature Sara Seck, Melissa Gorrie, Oonagh Fitzgerald, Sabaa Khan, and more. Date: April 25, 2024 at 3:00PM CDT. Register here.

The European Court’s Climate Change Judgment: What the Court Really Said and what it means for Climate Change Litigation (hybrid)
The KlimaSeniorinnen judgment is hailed as breaking new ground in climate change litigation by many but criticised as illegitimate judicial activism on the part of the European Court by some. UCL experts will analyse the reasoning of the Court and discuss what the judgment means for the future of climate change litigation and for European environmental policy. It will be followed by a Q & A session. This event will be hosted at UCL Faculty of Laws, London and online. Date: May 1, 2024 at 6:00PM BST. Register here.

New Publications/Releases:

Article: Intersectional Victims as Agents of Change in International Human Rights-Based Climate Litigation, Angela Hefti; Transnational Environmental Law. Read here.

Blog: Climate Change Litigation before the European Court of Human Rights: A New Dawn, Annalisa Savaresi, Linnéa Nordlander, and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh; GNHRE. Read here.

Blog: Do climate lawsuits lead to action? Researchers assess their impact, Carissa Wong; Nature. Read here.

Book: Responsibility for Environmental Damage, Jason Rudall; Elgar. Purchase here.

News Article: How to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation tactics, Amy Westervelt and Kyle Pope; The Guardian. Read here.