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:
Fourth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law (abstracts)
We welcome abstracts of up to 400 words on any topic relating to international law and popular culture (film, tv, books, video games, or more–get creative!). To be considered, please submit your pitch via email to Alonso Gurmendi and Sarah Zarmsky at s.zarmsky@essex.ac.uk by August 1, 2024 at 17:00 UK time. Decisions will be communicated by August, 16 2024. See more here.
Climate Dynamics and the Politics of a Post-Carbon Africa (abstracts)
The ongoing calls for urgent action to mitigate the growing scourge of climate change by transitioning away from fossil fuels are often met with troubling uncertainties about the fate of costly commercial ventures in the petroleum industry, risks to sustainable livelihood bundles, precarious patterns of human mobilities and displacement, and potential violent flashpoints over distributional contentions in multi-sited domains of (post)carbon development. The Centre of African Studies (CAS) at the University of Edinburgh invites submissions from scholars and active researchers interested in the socio-technical and political entanglements shaping sustainable energy transitions in Africa. We are particularly interested in submissions that draw from an empirically- grounded and theoretical introspections about an African perspective on the global energy
transition drive and climate change. Abstract deadline: August 30, 2024. See more here and apply here.
ESIL Research Forum – International Law in the Age of Permacrisis (abstracts)
The ESlL Research Forum is a scholarly conference that promotes engagement with research in progress by members of the Society in the early stages of their careers. It has a small and intensive format: no more than 25-30 paper submissions will be selected. The 2025 Research Forum aims to reflect on the status of international law and its potential transformation in the age of permacrisis. Two underlying themes will shape the discussions: how international actors, norms and processes are deploying old and new tools and methods to face emerging challenges, and broader reflections on how permacrisis narratives gain traction and reframe international discourse. Abstract deadline: September 30, 2024. Event location: University of Catania, Italy. See more here.
Opportunities:
Waging Justice for Women Fellowship Program (A Variety of African States)
The Fellowship offers an annual salary and an opportunity to work with leading human rights organizations on gender justice. Fellows support at least one strategic litigation case designed to advance women and girls’ rights in national, regional or international courts or UN mechanisms. Fellows should expect to be based in the home country of their host organization and have the right to work in that country. The ten host organizations partnering with the Fellowship Program in 2025 are AvocAid in Sierra Leone, the Association of Female Lawyers in Liberia, the Centre for Human Rights Education Advice and Assistance in Malawi, the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria in South Africa, the Female Lawyers Association Gambia, the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa in South Africa, the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa in The Gambia, the Katiba Institute in Kenya, the Pan-African Lawyers Union in Tanzania, and the Women Lawyers Association in Malawi. Deadline: August 4, 2024. See more here.
Center for International Environmental Law – US Carbon Capture Senior Campaigner (USA)
As CIEL’s US-based CCS Senior Campaigner, you will lead, develop, and operationalize the organization’s priorities to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels by confronting the deployment of false solutions, ensuring that people are at the center of climate policies while holding corporations accountable for their human rights and environmental harms. You will serve as a focal point for CIEL’s work to confront the accelerating CCS buildout in the US, with a special focus on Texas, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico. Application deadline: August 12, 2024 for first application review – rolling. See more here.
World Benchmarking Alliance – Sustainability Research Analyst (Worldwide)
The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) is a global organisation building a movement to measure, incentivise and encourage business’ impact towards a sustainable future for everyone. To empower this movement, we publish free and public corporate benchmarks on systemic issues related to sustainable development. In the coming year, we will be working towards the publication of all our corporate benchmarks: climate and energy, food and agriculture, finance, digital inclusion, human rights, gender, social, nature, and urban. We have several openings for the role of “Sustainability Research Analyst.” In this role, you will undertake research, from data collection to analysis, to shed light on how companies are contributing to the positive system changes needed to achieve the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. We have a physical presence in Amsterdam and London, alongside many employees who work across the world. You can be based anywhere for this role as inclusivity is one of our values. Deadline: August 22, 2024. See more here.
Events:
Transmission, Planning, and Energy Justice in New York State (online)
A virtual discussion of emergent energy justice policy issues in transmission planning. Please join us Thursday, August 1, 2024 from 6:00-7:00EST for a conversation with experts as we examine pathways to achieving energy justice through transmission and planning processes in New York State. There will be a moderated conversation including – Raya Salter, Michael Gerrard, Vivek Shastry, Maria Bushby, Cassidy Hall, and Ian Hunt. Register here.
Global Environmental Law Centre’s (GELC) Webinar: Litigating Climate Change in the Global South with Jolene Lin and Jacqueline Peel (online)
A farmer suing his government for violating his constitutional rights through failing to implement the country’s declared climate policy frameworks. A coalition of environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working with local communities to oppose the authorization of a large, new coal-fired power plant. Political parties bringing suit to the highest court of the land to take issue with the non-operationalization of the government’s financial mechanism for funding climate mitigation and adaptation actions. Young people opposing large-scale deforestation which threatens their climate future and that of future generations. These are just some examples of a new phenomenon of climate cases emerging in developing countries of the so-called ‘Global South’. This body of Global South cases now numbers more than 120 cases filed, decided or pending. And it is a fast-growing field: About half of the Global South climate cases have been filed in the past five years. Drawing from their book, “Litigating Climate Change in the Global South”, the speakers will discuss the emerging and accelerating phenomenon of climate litigation in the Global South. Date: August 8, 2024 at 9:00AM SAST. Register here.
New Publications/Releases:
Blog: Defining Due Diligence Obligation of States in Relation to Climate Change, Divyanshu Sharma; Cambridge International Law Journal Blog. Read here.
Blog Series: Lessons from the Aarhus Convention and Escazú Agreement for Procedural Environmental Rights in Canada Symposium, hosted by Erin Dobbelsteyn and Sara L Seck; GNHRE. Read the posts here.
Book: Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System, edited by Julia Dehm, Nicole Graham, and Zoey Nay. Read here.
Book: Wetlands Law and Policy: Understanding Section 404, Second Edition, Susan Lynne Stephens, Kim Diana Connolly, and Sarah P. Jarboe. Preorder here.
Report: Planning Considerations for a Financing Mechanism to Address Climate Mobility in Africa; IOM UN Migration. Read here.