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HLS invites you to the all-day academic symposium “African Perspectives on International Climate Change Law” and the lunch discussion “The Role of Courts in Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment: Lessons from Latin America”.
Panel sessions at the symposium will cover topics such as “Participation of African States in Shaping International Law” or “Climate Change and Loss and Damage”. Among the speakers are some of the Continent's foremost legal practitioners and scholars including Hajer Gueldich, James Gathii, Charles C. Jalloh, Benyam Dawit Mezmur, or Phoebe Okowa. The lunch event will bring together leading judges and supreme court justices from Brazil, Argentina and Mexico to provide an overview of the judicialization of a right to a healthy environment in Latin America. Food and drinks will be provided throughout the day. For more info on the symposium program, participants and the lunch discussion, visit the HRP website. The symposium will mark day 2 of the HLS Climate Justice Series, which kicks off on March 28 with the annual symposium of the Harvard Human Rights Journal on human rights and the environment.
Organized by: HLS Human Rights Program