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Guides, Reports, and Submissions

First page of open letter urging BC government to repeal Bill 45 "alternative shelter" provisions

Open letter to BC government urging repeal of Bill 45 "alternative shelter" provisions for homeless encampment injunctions, with final list of 286 signatories

By Stepan Wood and a coalition of activists, volunteers, researchers, lawyers, community members and  individuals with lived experience of homelessness

July 2024 

First page of the CLE's submission on the CEPA Right to a Healthy Environment Implementation Framework Discussion Document

CLE Submission for the Discussion Document on the Implementation Framework for a Right to a Healthy Environment under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999

By Stepan Wood and Ana Bandeira De Melo

April 2024

report cover

Low Impact Development in the Coquitlam River Watershed: Barriers and Facilitators in Municipal Laws

By Stepan Wood

March 2024

First page of open letter urging BC government to withdraw Bill 45 "alternative shelter" provisions

Open letter to BC government urging withdrawal of Bill 45 "alternative shelter" provisions for homeless encampment injunctions, with final list of 160 signatories

By Stepan Wood and a coalition of activists, volunteers, researchers, lawyers, community members and individuals with lived experience of homelessness

November 2023 

Cover of report - title over crimson background with a photo of a tent city behind

Rush to Judgment: A Critical Survey of Court Injunctions Against Homeless Encampments in BC, 2000-2022

By Stepan Wood

October 2023

 

Rights of Nature Guides

The Rights of Nature (RON) Guides are an evolving series of guides intended to provide a general introduction to RON laws in plain language. They are intended for anyone curious about the subject, from ordinary citizens to community organizers, business people, scientists, politicians, government officials and Indigenous leaders.

Rights of Nature Who Holds Them? A Plain Language Legal Guide for Legal Citizens with a photo of river in background

Rights of Nature: Who Holds Them?

A Plain Language Legal Guide for Earth Citizens

By Stepan Wood

September 2023

 

Rights of Nature: What Are They? A Plain Language Legal Guide with photo of canyon in the background

Rights of Nature: What Are They?

A Plain Language Legal Guide for Earth Citizens

By Stepan Wood

September 2023

Working Papers

This working paper series presents new work by researchers affiliated with the Centre for Law and the Environment at the Allard School of Law.

2023
Cover of report

Driving Global Heating to 1.7° and Above: The New Canada's Energy Future 2023 Report and Canada's Projected Oil Production to 2050

By David Gooderham

Working Paper No 1/2023

2022
Image of cover of CLE Working Paper 2022/03 by Stepan Wood

A Critique of Vancouver Fraser Port Authority v Brett and Associated Case Law

By Stepan Wood

Working Paper No 3/2022

Cover photo for CLE Working Paper 02/2022 by Celia White

Mexican Salsa and Mexican Farm Workers: How International Agricultural Development Marginalizes Farm Labour

By Celia A. White

Working Paper No 2/2022

Cover photo for CLE Working Paper 01/2022 Julia Witmer

How Law Shapes Food Sovereignty in Urban Canada

By Julia Witmer 

Working Paper No 1/2022

 

2021
Cover photo for CLE Working Paper 3/2021 Tasha Stansbury "A Roof Over Our Stomachs: The Right to Housing in Canada and Its Implications for the Right to Food"

By Tasha Stansbury

Working Paper No 3/2021

Title Page Marie Turcott Working Paper

Defending Nature Against Rodenticides

By Marie Turcott

Working Paper No 2/2021

Cover Page for Grassroots and Litigation-Based Approaches to Advancing Indigenous Rights: Lessons from Extractive Industry Resistance in Mesoamerica

Grassroots and Litigation-Based Approaches to Advancing Indigenous Rights: Lessons from Extractive Industry Resistance in Mesoamerica

By Justin Wiebe

Working Paper No 1/2021

 

2020  
Cover page of CLE working paper entitled "Responsible Scholarship in a Crisis: A Plea for Fairness in Academic Discourse on the Carbon Pricing References"

 

 

Responsible Scholarship in a Crisis: A Plea for Fairness in Academic Discourse on the Carbon Pricing References

By Stepan Wood, Meinhard Doelle and Dayna Nadine Scott

Working Paper No 2/2020

cover page of CLE working paper entitled "Rights of Nature Legislation for British Columbia: Issues and Options"

 

 

Rights of Nature Legislation for British Columbia: Issues and Options

By Rachel Garrett and Stepan Wood

Working Paper No 1/2020

 

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