Climate change on trial – book talk by César Rodríguez-Garavito

Drawing on an original database of rights-based climate change lawsuits worldwide, as well as interviews with leading actors and participant observation in the field, the book explains the rise and global diffusion of rights-based climate litigation.

It brings together insights from global governance, international law, climate policy, human rights, and legal mobilisation theory to offer a socio-legal account of the actors, strategies, and norms that have emerged at the intersection of human rights and climate governance.

Meet our speakers and chair

Speaker: César Rodríguez-Garavito, Professor of Law; Chair, Center for Human Rights & Global Justice; Director, The Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Program; Director, More-than-Human Life (MOTH) Program, at NYU School of Law

Chair: Professor Siva Thambisetty, Associate Professor of Law, LSE Law School

Panellist: Joana Setzer, Associate Professor, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Eoin Jackson, PhD Candidate LSE Law School

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LSE Law School is one of the world’s elite law schools with an internationally respected faculty. It offers a uniquely diverse international community which attracts leading academics and talented students from all over the world.

The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by LSE in 2008 to create a world-leading multidisciplinary centre for policy-relevant research and training on climate change and the environment, bringing together international expertise from across LSE and beyond, including on economics, finance, geography, the environment, science, law, international relations, development and political science.

The Global School of Sustainability at LSE (GSoS) is the interdisciplinary centre for sustainability research impact at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). GSoS works in partnerships to advance pioneering sustainability research, global policy engagement and worldleading educational opportunities. Grounded in LSE’s interdisciplinary excellence across the social sciences, GSoS’s global networks target the systemic challenges to sustainability embedded in the world’s economies, politics and societies.

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