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The 2021 UBC Environmental Negotiation Competition

Towards Legal Recognition for Non-Human Relations, Webinar 2: Supernatural Beings and Sacred Places

No Fly Zone Speaker: Climate Defense Project: Climate Lawyers for the Climate Movement

No Fly Zone Speaker: The German KSG Case: Giving teeth to the constitutional right to a stable climate for future generations

Towards Legal Recognition for Non-Human Relations, Webinar 1: Rivers

No Fly Zone Speaker: The Sharma Case: A Governmental Duty of Care to Protect Young People from the Harms of Climate Change

Rights of Nature and Indigenous Peoples: Navigating a New Course

Towards Legal Recognition for Non-Human Relations: Webinar Series

The Centre for Law & the Environment (CLE) at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, in collaboration with the UBC Sustainability Initiative and the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER), presents a series of webinars for individuals and organizations from Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities interested in implementing laws that respect and protect non-human beings like rivers, lakes, species and ecosystems.

Rally for Steven Donziger’s Release and Justice for Ecuadorean Victims of Chevron's Toxic Legacy

The Centre for Law & the Environment is organizing a rally on August 6, 2021 to demand the release of US human rights lawyer Steven Donziger and justice for the Ecuadorean victims of Chevron's toxic legacy.

Rethinking the Reception of English Law in British Columbia

In 2013 the Supreme Court of Canada held that a 1731 English statute requiring all documents filed in court proceedings to be in English was in force in the province of British Columbia. The Court held that the statute met the requirements set out by BC's provincial statute governing the reception of English law in BC: the criminal and civil laws of England as of November 19, 1858 are received in the province "so far as they are not from local circumstances inapplicable." If the idea of a court declaring in 2013 that a 1731 English statute is in force in Canada makes you uneasy, you might...

Environmental and Natural Resource Law Specialization: Special note for the 2021-22 Academic Year

Due to some overlapping faculty member leaves, none of the courses listed as meeting the Specialization in Environmental and Natural Resource Law's international law requirement are offered in the 2021-22 academic year. To accommodate this unusual situation, certain courses in the upcoming academic year will be considered to fulfill the international law requirement:

Recap: Canadian Association for Food Law and Policy 5th Annual Conference

On May 13 to 15, the Centre for Law and the Environment hosted one of Canada's most thought-provoking forums on food systems. For the first time, the Canadian Association for Food Law and Policy's conference was based out of the West Coast, offering a unique opportunity to explore British Columbia as a case study in territorial food system governance, in addition to addressing a variety of pressing issues in food law and policy.