“Make Pollution Political”: Toxic Pollution, Multinational Companies and the search for Justice through the Court

Samarendra Das & Zuky Serper

Can China Really Lead on Climate Change?

Dr. Sam Geall

Land Titling & Social Embeddedness: Gender, Property and Formalisation in Mexico’s Informal Settlements

Ann Varley (UCL)

The Bhopal Disaster 34 years later - Screening of Bhopali and Discussion

Tim Edwards (Bhopal Rights Activist)

Not waving but drowning - human rights, Climate change and small islands

Susie Alegre (Island Rights Initiative)

Criminalising environmental protest: policing the anti-fracking movement

Dr Damien Short (School of Advanced Study, University of London)

Climate Change-related Loss and Damage: Institutionalising an Idea in the UNFCCC

Dr Lisa Vanhala (UCL)

European Policy Developments Around Plastic Pollution

Tatiana Lujan (Client Earth)

Using the Law to Improve Forest Governance - Case Studies from Central & West Africa and the EU

Speaker: Emily Unwin

LEDC’s Twelfth Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2018-2019)

Human Rights & Climate Change: the Case of the Indian Sundarbans

Speaker: Birsha Ohdedar

LEDC’s Eleventh Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2017-2018)

An Inclusive Energy Transition? The Role of Public Participation in International Energy Governance

Speaker: Dr Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli | King's College London

LEDC’s Eleventh Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2017-2018)

Blockchains' Legal Puzzles and Trust Games to Guarantee Sustainable Commodity Supply Chains

Speaker: Dr Feja Lesniewska | School of Law/CISD SOAS University of London

LEDC’s Eleventh Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2017-2018)

International criminal law and environmental crimes: Possibilities and limitations

Speaker: Richard J Rogers, Global Diligence LLP

LEDC’s Eleventh Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2017-2018)

Geoengineering: Risks, Rights and Ethics

Speaker: Dr Sam Adelman, University of Warwick

LEDC’s Eleventh Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2017-2018)

The Search for Principles of Transnational Environmental Regulation

Speaker: Dr Veerle Heyvaert, LSE

LEDC’s Eleventh Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2017-2018)

Environmental Governance Beyond Borders: The Impact of European Union’s Normative Power in Non-EU Countries

Speakers: Florent Pelsy and Virginie Rouas

LEDC’s Eleventh Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2017-2018)

Is Donald Trump’s criticism of the UN Human Rights Council justified, and what are the prospects for reform of the UN’s apex human rights body?

Speaker: Marc Limon, Universal Rights Group

LEDC’s Eleventh Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2017-2018)

Towards Global Recognition of the Right to a Healthy Environment

Marcos Orellana (Human Rights Watch)

LEDC’s Eleventh Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2017-2018)

Environmental Adjudication in the Anthropocene

Speaker: Prof. Gitanjali Nain Gill, School of Law, Northumbria University

LEDC’s Eleventh Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2017-2018)

Managing the right of access to water in South Africa: Facing the challenges

Speaker: Professor Michael Kidd, University of KwaZulu-Natal

LEDC’s Eleventh Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2017-2018)

Access to Science and Pharmaceutical Patent Production: Incoherence, debates and the role of expertise

HU Yuanqiong, SOAS University of London

LEDC’s Tenth Annual Public Evening Seminar Series – Human Rights and the Environment (2016-2017)

Realization of the ‘human’ rights to water and sanitation …and what about the environment?

Lovleen Bhullar School of Law, SOAS

LEDC’s Tenth Annual Public Evening Seminar Series – Human Rights and the Environment (2016-2017)

The role of strategic litigation in implementing the Paris Agreement

Farhana Yamin, CEO, Track 0 & UCL

LEDC’s Tenth Annual Public Evening Seminar Series – Development and Environmental Justice (2016-2017)

“Sustainable Energy for All”? Technology mobilisation and the human rights challenges of energy poverty and pollution

Stephen Minas (King's College London)

Transboundary Environmental Harm and Extra-territorial Human Rights Obligations

Christoph Schwarte (Legal Response Initiative)

The Bhopal Disaster - Screening of "Bhopali" and Panel Discussion

Salil Tripathi & Tim Edwards

The Role of Litigation in Combating Climate Change

Gillian Lobo, ClientEarth

LEDC’s Tenth Annual Public Evening Seminar Series – Human Rights and the Environment (2016-2017)

Right to Sanitation in India: from formal recognition to realisation

Sujith Koonan, SOAS University of London

LEDC’s Tenth Annual Public Evening Seminar Series – Human Rights and the Environment (2016-2017)

Looking for accountability: The impacts of multinational mining companies in a globalized world

Andrew Hickman & Richard Solly and other experts from London Mining Network

LEDC's Ninth Annual Public Evening Seminar Series - Sustainable Development Goals and Environmental Justice 2015 - 2016

Multinational Enterprises and Environmental Justice: Laws and Implications of Shell Nigeria and BP Colombia Cases

Seminar with panellists: Daniel Leader, Barrister, Partner, Leigh Day and  Shubhaa Srinivasan, Barrister, Partner, Leigh Day

Energy transitions and energy landscapes: What role international law?

Dr Thoko Kaime

A seminar by Dr Thoko Kaime as part of the LEDC Seminar series.

Bhopal and the elusive quest for justice

Speaker: Salil Tripathi (Institute for Human Rights and Business)

A seminar by Salil Tripathi, Senior Advisor on Global Issues at the Institute for Human Rights and Business.

Sustainable Development as Climate Injustice

Dr Sam Adelman (Warwick Law School)

The Resource Curse

Prof Janet Dine (Queen Mary University of London)

Conflicting Waters in the Middle East: An Overview of the Hydropolitical Stakes

Dr François Boëdec, Facultés jésuites de Paris

Indigenous Rights and Development

Dr Alexandra Xanthaki (Brunel Law School)

The Promise and Legal Pitfalls of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation)

Dr David Takacs (University of California – Hastings College of the Law)

Contradictory Entitlements: Cheap Food v Sustainable Natural Resource Stewardship

Prof Tony Allan (SOAS/Kings College London)

Mining, Adivasis and Investment-induced Displacement

Dr Felix Padel (University of Sussex)

Surveillance, Databasing and Threats to Privacy

Dr Edgar Whitley (LSE), Helen Wallace (GeneWatch), Dr Usha Ramanathan (Independent Law Researcher, Delhi)

The LEDC invites you to attend Surveillance, Databasing, and Threats to Privacy with Dr Edgar Whitley (LSE), Helen Wallace (GeneWatch) and Dr Usha Ramanathan (Independent Law Researcher, Delhi).

LITIGATING FOR ASBESTOS JUSTICE - “Dust: the Great Asbestos Trial”

Mr Vijay Ganapathy (Leigh Day)

Projection of documentary “Dust: the Great Asbestos Trial” followed by a talk by Mr Vijay Ganapathy (Leigh Day).

LITIGATING FOR THE RIGHT TO WATER - Protest Against Coca Cola in Plachimada, Kerala

Prof. Philippe Cullet and Mr. Sujith Koonan

Screening of '1000 Days and a Dream' followed by a discussion with Prof.Philippe Cullet and Mr.Sujith Koonan.

LITIGATING FOR ACCESS TO MEDICINES - Documentary screening of India, Pharmacy of the world

Ms Prathibha Sivasubramanian

Documentary Screening of India, pharmacy of the world followed by a discussion with Ms Prathibha Sivasubramanian.

LEDC Litigating for Justice - 'All Rise for Your Honour’

Prof. Srikrishna Deva Rao, National Law University, Delhi

All Rise for Your Honour is a documentary on Indian judicial system and highlights the difficulties faced by the poor and marginalised communities in accessing justice in courts. 

Join us to watch the documentary followed by a conversation with Prof. Srikrishna Deva Rao, Registrar, National Law University, Delhi. His areas of research interest include Criminal Law, Human Rights and Access to Justice.

LITIGATING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE - Climate Change and Recent Developments in Emissions Trading

MJ Mace

MOVIE SCREENING: The story of Cap & Trade

DISCUSSANT: Ms. MJ Mace (Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS) 

MJ Mace is an international lawyer and advisor to the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) in the international climate change negotiations.

LEDC - Litigation for BHOPAL - Movie Screening

Tim Edwards

Ensuring Innovation and Equitable Access to Medicines: Challenges and Possibilities for a New Global Framework for R&D

Dr Suerie Moon

Ensuring Innovation and Equitable Access to Medicines: Challenges and Possibilities for a New Global Framework for R&D

Dr Suerie Moon (Harvard University, Global Health Institute, School of Public Health, Kennedy
School of Government)

Challenges for Multilateral Environmental Negotiations:A Southern Sustainable Development Perspective

Ms Chee Yoke Ling (Third World Network)

The REDD+ Safeguards: A Rights-Based Approach to Improving Forest Governance

Joshua Roberts (ClientEarth)

Corporate evasion of international environmental and human rights law: the case of Trafigura and toxic waste dumping in Cote d’Ivoire

Ms Audrey Gaughran (Amnesty International)

Seeds of Freedom and Food Sovereignty

Ms Teresa Anderson (The Gaia Foundation)

The Australian Emissions Trading Scheme: An Implementation Story

Dr Gary Cox

The Australian Emissions Trading Scheme: An Implementation Story

Dr Gary Cox

Towards Rio+20: Business, Natural Resources and Human Rights

Keren Adams (Leigh Day & Co)

Holding the giants to account: transnational human rights litigation in practice

For further information contact Virginie Rouas: ledc@soas.ac.uk

Towards Rio+20: Business, Natural Resources and Human Rights

Krystyna Swiderska (Int'l Institute for Environment and Development)

Implementing the Nagoya Protocol's provisions on community protocols and prior informed consent: lessons and challenges.

For further information contact Virginie Rouas: ledc@soas.ac.uk

State responsibility, corporate complicity and conflicts over land

Dr Usha Ramanathan (Independent Law Researcher, Delhi)

Towards Rio+20: Business, Natural Resources and Human Rights

Salil Tripathi (Institute for Human Rights and Business)

Ending complicity in conflict: how international efforts have attempted to break the link between extractive industries and human rights abuses.

For further information contact Virginie Rouas: ledc@soas.ac.uk

Towards Rio+20: Business, Natural Resources and Human Rights

Peter Frankental (Amnesty International)

Holding transnational corporations accountable for human rights - is the tide beginning to turn?

For further information contact Virginie Rouas: ledc@soas.ac.uk

Whither International Environmental Governance? Rio+20 and Beyond

Professor Bharat Desai (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)

Shared Value, Shared Responsibility: A new approach to managing contracting chains in the oil and gas sector

Dr Emma Wilson (IIED, London)

Managing the Fragmentation of International Environmental Law: Forests at the Intersection of the Climate and Biodiversity Regimes

Harro Van Asselt (University of Oxford)

Multicultural choices and indigenous rights to natural resources

Dr Alexandra Xanthaki (Brunel University)

“Do All Roads Lead to Mexico?” International Climate Negotiations post-Copenhagen

Panel: Saleem Huq (IIED), M.J Mace (Independent Legal Consultant), Linda Siegele (FIELD), Phillipe Cullet (SOAS)

Definitions of 'Forests' in International Environmental Law: Implications for Ecosystems, Forest Peoples and Climate Change

Feja Lesniewska (SOAS)

Global Environmental Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance

Dr Chukwumerije Okereke (Oxford University)

Carbon Trading, Political Struggle and the Rule of Law

Larry Lohmann (The Corner House)

Global Justice and the (Ir)relevance of Indeterminacy

Professor Duncan French (Sheffield University)

Health in International Environmental Law

Dr William Onzivu (Bradford University)

New Developments in Indian Environmental law

Professor Upendra Baxi, Professor of Law in Development, University of Warwick

Chair: Dr Philippe Cullet, LEDC, SOAS

International Environmental Governance - Where From Here?

Joy Hyrvarinen, Director, Foundation for International and Environmental Law (FIELD)

Chair: Feja Lesniewska, LEDC, SOAS

Water and Electricity privatisations: an international review of Court cases and political processes

David Hall, Director, Public Services International Research Unit, University of Greenwich

Chair: Feja Lesniewska, LEDC, SOAS

Indigenous Peoples and Natural Resources in the Artic

Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary College, University of London

Chair: Kristin Hausler, Research Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Agency in Regime Changes: Dams, Development and Movements for Water Justice

Dr Radha D'Souza, Unisversity of Westminster

Chair: Dr Philippe Cullet, Law, Environment and Development Centre, SOAS

Developing Justice within the International Climate Change Framework

Dr Angela Williams, University of Sussex

Chair: Sarah Williams, Dorset Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Biofuels, Security and Unintended Consequences

Professor Patricia Sparks, Southampton Solent Univerisity

Water Law Reform, Poverty and Development: The Case of India

Dr Philippe Cullet, SOAS

How Many Roads? Negotiating an International Access and Benefit Sharing Regime

Linda Siegele, FIELD

There's No Place Like Home: Human Displacement and Climate Change

M J Mace and Ilona Miller, FIELD

International Policy Solutions to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation

Dr Charlotte Streck, Climate Focus