This two day conference was organised by the UCL Centre for Law and Environment and took place on Thursday 31 March - Friday 1 April 2022.
This major conference brought together key thinkers, including scholars, policymakers, civil society representatives, legal practitioners, judges and PhD students, to reflect on the connections and tensions between the rule of law and climate change.
There are many and complex links between the climate crisis and rule of law. Without rule of law values, any sustained response to climate change is increasingly difficult, whilst the instability threatened by climate change may place rule of law values at risk. In a quick-fire round of five minute contributions, we begin to set out the centrality of rule of law to our current crisis, from diverse functional and geographical perspectives.
This session on 'Climate Change and the Rule of Law in the Courts 1 – Whose Rule
of Law?' was chaired by Dr Kim Bouwer (University of Durham) and speakers include:
- Professor Anuj Bhuwania (O.P. Jindal Global University)
Indian Courts and Climate Change: Panacea or Smokescreen
- Professor Jonas Ebbesson (University of Stockholm)
Challenging and developing legal concepts through climate lawsuits: how
does that square with the rule of law?
- Professor Ademola Jegede (University of Venda)
Struggling to be heeded! Climate rule of law and the protection of
indigenous peoples’ land rights under the AHRS
