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:

Climate Change and Reparations (abstracts)
We invite expressions of interest for participation in a workshop organized as part of a Partnership Research Project on “Climate Change and Reparations,” to be held at the Université de Montréal on April 15, 2025. For more information about the project, please visit the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) project page. Interested participants are invited to submit abstracts of their intended contributions of no more than 300 words by January 15, 2025. See more here.

Towards a Global Ecological-Economic Legal Framework (abstracts)
Until recently, International Economic Law (IEL) and International Environmental Law (IEnvL) were largely treated as separate domains. The prevailing assumption was that there was no conflict between them, with each supporting the other, either spontaneously or through purposeful design. It was believed that the pursuit of economic growth and the establishment of a level playing field did not conflict with the goal of preserving a healthy environment or maintaining ecological balance. However, it is now undeniable that the way we produce, consume, invest and trade — which is shaped by International economic Law — is the main cause of ecological crises, which are structural and not temporary or limited. Abstracts for the ‘Towards a Global Ecological-Economic Legal Framework’ conference, hosted at the École Normale Supérieure-Paris Sciences et Lettres on June 6-7, 2025, are due February 28, 2025. See more here.

Symposium Collection of the Transnational Environmental Law Journal – Law, Science and Indigenous Knowledge (papers)
In the context of multiple, global environmental crises, policy-makers, scientists, researchers, and activists have identified a critical gap between science and policy in environmental law-making. Law-makers, it is argued, have failed to create rules or develop tools that respond to and address the significant threats that scientists are identifying. Policy instruments do not reflect scientific recommendations. At the same time, scientific research and outputs often fail to engage with the spectrum of concerns that shape the law.

Both law and science institutions are plagued by issues of accessibility and both are shaped by social, economic and geographic determinants that often entrench problematic, exclusionary, neo-colonial practices and priorities. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ongoing exclusion of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous knowledge, and Indigenous law in law and science research and practice, domestically and internationally. Deadline: Papers (8000 words) must be submitted by email to the Symposium conveners (d.lupin@soton.ac.uk and clive.vinti@wits.ac.za) by May 15, 2025. Kindly contact either Clive or Dina should you have any questions.

Calls for Input:

Stocktake Survey of Environmental Law Clinics and Community Environmental Legal Aid Centres (survey form)
To advance environmental rule of law and access to environmental justice, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is conducting an assessment to map and evaluate environmental law clinics and community environmental legal aid centres in the Asia Pacific region. If you are able to support this important initiative, please complete the survey form by January 10, 2025.

Opportunities:

Emmett Institute Fellowship in Environmental Law and Policy (Los Angeles, USA)
UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment is now accepting applications for the UCLA Emmett/Frankel Fellowship in Environmental Law and Policy for the academic years 2025-2027. This is a full-time two-year fellowship beginning in the summer of 2025. The position involves research and writing in the law and policy of climate change and the environment; teaching; and assisting with Institute projects such as conferences and workshops. Deadline: January 10, 2025. See more here.

King’s College London – Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law (London, England)
The School is seeking to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law. The post-holder will be an outstanding candidate with research interests and teaching expertise in their field of Environmental and Climate Law (broadly defined to include sustainability-related law, including environment, climate, energy, resources). The successful candidate’s principal teaching contribution will be to our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in environmental law. The ability to contribute to the core undergraduate law curriculum is desirable. Deadline: January 26, 2025. See more here.

University of Gothenburg – PhD Candidate in Environmental Social Science (Gothenburg, Sweden)
The School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, announces a fully faculty-funded doctoral position in Environmental Social Science on the theme “Farmers as geopolitical actors”. This PhD project will explore the role(s) of farmers as geopolitical actors. Its overarching focus will be how farmers perceive and navigate their role in a changing geopolitical environment and coincident sustainability transformations. Deadline: February 17, 2025. See more here.

Events:

Attribution Science and Climate Law (in person and online)
This conference will further advance collaboration between the scientific, legal and policy-making communities by bringing together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners to share insights on the status of attribution research and its relevance to climate law and policy. Date: January 9-10, 2025, Columbia Law School, New York. Register here.

Sustainability and Prosperity in the Age of Ecological Scarcity (in person and online)
We have entered a new era of increasing ecological scarcity and rising global environmental risks – global warming, land use change and biodiversity loss, freshwater scarcity, and deteriorating oceans and coasts. Drawing on his book, Scarcity and Frontiers, Edward Barbier argues that how economies choose to exploit natural resources is critical to both their sustainability and prosperity. Date: February 3, 2025, LSE Law School, London. See more here.

New Publications/Releases:

Article: Justice for Glaciers – The Politics of Personhood in Climate Change Litigation, Noah Walker-Crawford; Journal of Legal Anthropology. See here.

Blog Series Launch: Climate Law and Litigation Blog Series, BIICL. Read here.

Book: Perspectives of Women Scholars on International Environmental Law, Edith B Weiss (ed.); IOS Press. Purchase here.

Book: Rights of Nature in Liberal Legal Systems and International Law – Beyond Legal Anthropocentrism, Jasper Mührel; Springer. Purchase here.

Draft Policy: ICC Office of the Prosecutor – Draft Policy on Environmental Crimes Under the Rome Statute. Read here.