Poster for Green Rights & Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy 2024

2024 Green Rights & Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy

Calling all lifelong learners interested in #RightsofNature!

The Centre For Law & the Environment at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, is excited to announce the 2024 Green Rights & Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy on November 16-17, 2024, “Rights of Nature: From Law on the Books to Law in Action.”

This free, interactive, online learning event will feature Ecuadorian lawyer Hugo Echeverría and Executive Director Mari Margil, both of the Center for Democratic & Environmental Rights (CDER).

Other presenters and workshops leaders include Colombian-Canadian rights of nature advocate Yenny Vega Cárdenas of the International Observatory on Nature’s Rights; Innu land guardian, writer, and poet Rita Mestokosho; and More Than Human Life Project team members from The Earth Rights Research & Action (TERRA) Clinic at the NYU Law School Center for Human Rights & Global Justice.

Participants will also prepare for and conduct a virtual rights of nature “mock trial.”

We invite you to join us for this exciting weekend. For details and to register, visit this link.