ActInCourts Roundtable:  Prosecuting Ecocide

Activists in International Courts Network

Can we fill the Accountability Gap for Environmental Harm?

For the fifth Practitioner-Scholar Roundtable hosted by the <a href="https://actincourts.arts.ubc.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ActInCourts Network </a>(UBC), The <a href="https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/toxic-crimes" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Toxic Crimes Project</a> at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights (University of Helsinki), and the <a href="https://www.environmentalpeacebuilding.org/membership/interest-groups/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Law Interest Group</a> of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association we will discuss the potential of prosecuting ecocide and the associated risks.Since the inception of the idea to define and criminalize environmental harm in the 1970s, today there is a renewed momentum and support to address accountability for environmental harm. In June 2021 an <a href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/prelaunch-expert-drafting-panel" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide </a>(‘Panel’), convened by the Stop Ecocide Foundation, proposed a new definition of ecocide as an international crime. Having received both positive and critical responses, this renewed effort might initiate a process to amend the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) with Ecocide becoming the Fifth International Crime. The virtual panel will discuss the challenges of defining and prosecuting ecocide, how to fight against impunity of environmental crimes in practice, and the limitations of the proposed definition. The discussion will be led by:<ul><li><a href="https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/rachel-killean" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Rachel Killean</a> is a Senior Lecturer in the Queen’s University Belfast School of Law and a Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Peace, Security and Social Justice</li><li><a href="https://www.globaldiligence.com/partners" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Richard Rogers</a> is ​​a Partner at Global Diligence and a Deputy Co-Chair of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide </li><li><a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10953/Whiting" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alex Whiting</a> is a Deputy Prosecutor of the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague and a Visiting Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. Alex was a member of the Expert Panel that proposed a definition of the crime of Ecocide </li><li><a href="https://www.strath.ac.uk/research/strathclydecentreenvironmentallawgovernance/ourwork/research/labsincubators/climatechangelitigationinitiative/countries/france/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Maud Sarliève</a> is a Human Rights and International Criminal Lawyer advocating for creative legal thinking to mitigate climate change and protect the environment</li><li><a href="https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/toxic-crimes/people#section-89219" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stavros Pantazopoulos</a> (Moderator) is a post-doctoral researcher with the Toxic Crimes Project of the Erik Castrén Institute at the University of Helsinki and a Co-Chair of the Law Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association</li><li><a href="https://politics.ubc.ca/profile/lisa-sundstrom/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lisa Sundstrom </a>(Chair) is a Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.</li></ul>Zoom link available after registration.Disclaimer: Please note that by registering via this service, your information will be stored on the Eventbrite server, which is located outside Canada. If you do not wish to use this service, please email cjtenove@mail.ubc.ca directly to register. Thank you.

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