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Call for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions:
Conceptualizing Ecocide International Conference (abstracts)
The Conceptualizing Ecocide conference will take place at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, on October 2-3, 2025. We cordially invite all interested academics, professionals, activists, students, and organizations to submit abstracts that focus on conceptual, theoretical, practical and experiential dimensions of ecocide. Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) and a short bio (max. 150 words) before April 15, 2025. Registration for the conference is free of charge. All applicants will be notified by the end of April 2025 on whether their proposal has been accepted. After the conference, selected papers will be considered for publication. See more here.
Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities Conference (abstracts)
The Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities Conference revisits the questions of what qualifies as a human rights violation, who holds human rights duties and how to actually deliver human rights accountability in the context of pressing and complex challenges. It will be hosted by the Future Proofing Human Rights research project in Brussels, Belgium from 19-21 November 19-21, 2025. We are inviting contributions that seek to reconstruct the notion of human rights accountability, divided across five themes: Change, Knowing, Duties, Harm, and Remedy. We welcome contributions from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including but not limited to law, socio-legal perspectives, criminology, and political science. Abstract deadline: April 20, 2025. See more here.
Routledge Research Companion on Local Governments and Climate Change Governance in Africa (abstracts)
The book explores how African cities are turning these commitments into actionable policies and governance strategies to address the pressing realities of climate change. It contributes to generating new scholarly knowledge in the fields of local government law, urban governance, and climate change studies in Africa, through the generation of novel research. We encourage potential authors to submit abstracts of no more than 250 words, on any of the themes or related themes on local government and climate change in Africa. Deadline: April 31, 2025. See more here.
Calls for Input:
Military Activities and Toxics – issued by Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights
Purpose: To inform the Special Rapporteur’s 2025 thematic report to the United Nations General Assembly. Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 54/10, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights, Marcos Orellana, will present a thematic report, including recommendations, to the UN General Assembly in October 2025. His thematic report will focus, in accordance with his mandate, on military activities and toxics. Deadline: April 1, 2025. See more here.
Opportunities:
UC Davis Law – Water Justice Clinical Lecturer (Davis CA, USA)
The University of California, Davis, School of Law seeks a director for its Water Justice Clinic, starting July 1, 2025. The Clinic is a transactional clinic that provides legal assistance to disadvantaged California communities that lack access to reliable, affordable, and safe drinking water. In addition to meeting the pressing needs of these communities, the Clinic provides valuable training and experience for our law students which helps to create a pipeline of trained and experienced California water attorneys. Next review date: February 21, 2025. Final deadline: June 30, 2025. See more here.
Iberian Centre for Research in Energy Storage – 4x PhDs, 1 x Postdoc (Cáceres, Spain)
CIIAE is recruiting 4 PhD candidates and 1 postdoc researcher (all 4-years positions) to undertake the European Research Council (ERC) project DELaw: Degrowth through Energy Law: Using the legal framework for electricity batteries in Europe to achieve a degrowth-focused energy law. The main aim is to find a method to integrate degrowth theory within the Law, with a European focus. The deadline for application is February 23, 2025. The researchers are expected to start around May-June 2025 and the work will be undertaken at CIIAE’s location, on site, not remotely (although 2 days of remote work per week are permitted). See more here.
The University of Western Australia – Lecturer in Environmental Law (Crawley, Australia)
As the appointee, you will be responsible for contributing to the Law School’s teaching programs, research, research supervision and engagement activities and for carrying out the duties of an academic in their field of expertise at their level of appointment. You will teach into the Law School’s undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the area of domestic Environmental Law. You will also be required to teach into the compulsory offerings in the JD and other law undergraduate and postgraduate offerings. Deadline: February 28, 2025. See more here.
Events:
The Mar Menor Lagoon as a Subject of Rights. A Dialogue around the Ruling of the Constitutional Court of Spain 142/2024 of November 20, 2024 (online, in Spanish)
On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, Teresa Vicente Giménez (Full Professor and Director of the Chair of Human Rights and Rights of Nature at the University of Murcia), Itziar Gómez (Full Professor at UC3M and Counsel to the Constitutional Court of Spain) and Guillermo García Panasco (Prosecutor and Counsel to the Constitutional Court of Spain), will participate in the LXXIX session of the Jesús González Amuchastegui Permanent Seminar with the topic ‘The Mar Menor as a Subject of Rights: A dialogue around the ruling of the Constitutional Court of Spain 142/2024, of November 20, 2024’. The event seeks to be a space for dialogue on the first law and sentence in Spain that recognizes rights to nature, with the participation of some of the actors behind this achievement. Register here.
Exploring the Future of Climate Litigation (online and in person, London, England)
Join the UK Environmental Law Association’s Climate Change and Energy group as they host an exciting event focusing on the latest trends in climate litigation. Chaired by Stephen Hockman KC, the event promises to be an engaging forum featuring the following distinguished speakers: Kate Higham from the LSE’s Grantham Institute, Jessica Simor KC from Matrix Chambers, and Kyle Lischak, UK Head of Client Earth. Date: February 24, 2025. Register here.
Nova Southeastern University Law Coastal Resilience Conference (online and in person, Davie FL, USA)
Florida’s low-lying topography makes it particularly vulnerable to increased flooding from hurricanes, rain events, storm surge, and sea level rise. The 2025 NSU Coastal Resilience Conference brings together a diverse group of experts from state and federal government agencies, industry, and academia to provide up-to-date resilience initiatives and proposals for change. Date: March 14, 2025. Register here.
New Publications/Releases:
Article: A Tale of Two (and More) Models of Rights of Nature, Matthias Kramm; Environmental Ethics. Read here.
Article: Climate Change-Related Obligations under the Inter-American Human Rights System: A prospective mapping, Gastón Medici-Colombo; Spanish Yearbook of International Law. Read here.
Blog: Climate impacts are forcing people from their homes. When, how and why do they have valid refugee claims? Jane McAdam; The Conversation. Read here.
Podcast: CleanLaw’s 100th Episode – Trump’s Bold Reversal on Energy and Climate Policy: ‘It’s a Lot.’ Listen here.
Video: Trump’s executive orders on climate and environment, Professor Michael Gerrard for the Associated Press. Watch here.