Peter Allard School of Law – Centre for Law and the Environment

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In Their Own Words: Plaintiffs & Their Lawyers Speak About Youth Climate Cases, Part 2 – La Rose v Canada

Allard Hall 1822 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

The Centre for Law and the Environment’s four-part series, In Their Own Words: Plaintiffs and Their Lawyers Speak About Leading Youth Climate Cases, covers four leading cases from Canada and the US in which youth are demanding climate accountability and action from their government. Each session in the series will delve into a particular case […]

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In Their Own Words: Plaintiffs & Their Lawyers Speak About Youth Climate Cases, Part 4 – Juliana v US

Allard Hall 1822 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

The Centre for Law and the Environment’s four-part series, In Their Own Words: Plaintiffs and Their Lawyers Speak About Leading Youth Climate Cases, covers four leading cases from Canada and the US in which youth are demanding climate accountability and action from their government. Each session in the series will delve into a particular case […]

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Allard’s Centre for Law and the Environment Presents: Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies

Allard Hall 1822 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This talk by Godwin Dzah focuses on his pioneering book which analyzes and reimagines the concept of sustainable development in international law from a non-Western legal perspective. Built upon the intersection of law, politics, and history in the context of Africa, its peoples and their experiences, customary law and other legal cosmologies, this ground-breaking study […]

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Event Series The 2024 Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy

The 2024 Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy

Online/Virtual Event

How can you use law to fight for nature’s rights and transform humanity’s relationships with other beings and the planet? Find out by participating in this 2-day, innovative, interactive, intensive, online learning experience as courageous “Warrior Lawyers,” Indigenous legal knowledge holders and other inspiring leaders share their stories of advancing “Green Rights” through (or sometimes despite) law. You will learn […]

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Event Series The 2024 Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy

The 2024 Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy

Online/Virtual Event

How can you use law to fight for nature’s rights and transform humanity’s relationships with other beings and the planet? Find out by participating in this 2-day, innovative, interactive, intensive, online learning experience as courageous “Warrior Lawyers,” Indigenous legal knowledge holders and other inspiring leaders share their stories of advancing “Green Rights” through (or sometimes despite) law. You will learn […]

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10 Years After the Mount Polley Mine Disaster: Root Causes and Reparative Futures

Allard Hall 1822 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This year marks a decade since the Mount Polley mine disaster, that released 25-million-cubic-metres of heavy metal-laden waste into Te T7iweltk (Quesnel Lake). While the disaster was unprecedented in its scale and speed of contamination—recognized as largest mining disaster of its kind in Canadian history—this catastrophe is tied to longer pattern of social and ecological devastation […]

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