Room 104, Allard School of Law
University of British Columbia
1822 East Mall, Vancouver, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam Nation

The Centre for Law & the Environment Speaker Series is proud to present Mari Margil, a leading force in the global Rights of Nature movement. The Rights of Nature represent a significant and necessary shift in how humankind governs itself toward the natural world. Learn how this movement has grown in just over a decade from local communities to national laws, for the first time treating nature as possessing legal rights of its own.

Light refreshment will be served. This event is free and open to the public. It is eligible for 1 hour CPD credit for BC lawyers.

About Mari Margil

Mari Margil is the Executive Director of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, www.centerforenvironmentalrights.org, where she leads the International Center for the Rights of Nature. Previously, she was the Associate Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, assisting the first places in the world to secure the Rights of Nature in law, including Ecuador. Today, she is working in Australia, Sweden, Philippines, Nepal, and elsewhere, as well as with indigenous peoples and tribal nations, to advance Rights of Nature legal and policy frameworks. Mari received her Master’s degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She is a co-author of The Bottom Line or Public Health (Oxford University Press) and Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence (Wakefield Press).

The event is sponsored by:

Rights of Nature BC
The Centre for Law & the Environment at the Allard School of Law