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Climate Lawyers as Movement Lawyers (and Vice Versa)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2022

Carmen G. Gonzalez
Carmen G. Gonzalez*
Affiliation:
Morris I. Leibman Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
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Extract

The knowledge, skills, and expertise of lawyers in all practice areas are desperately needed to address the interrelated crises of climate change and racial injustice.

Type
We Are All Climate Lawyers Now
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 115 , 2021 , pp. 207 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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Footnotes

This panel was convened at 1:45 p.m., Thursday, March 25, 2021, by its moderator Rob Verchick of Loyola University New Orleans, who introduced the panelists: Carmen Gonzalez of Loyola University Chicago School of Law; Sailesh Mehta of Red Lion Chambers; Nilufer Oral of the UN International Law Commission; Hermann Ott of Client Earth; and Margaret Young of the University of Melbourne Law School.

References

1 UNHCR, Climate Change and Poverty, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, para. 50, UN Doc. A/HRC/41/39 (2019).

2 See generally John Linarelli, Margot E. Salomon & M. Sornarajah, The Misery of International Law (2018).

3 See generally Antony Anghie: Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law (2005).

4 See generally Kate Miles, The Origins of International Investment Law: Empire, Environment, and The Safeguarding of Capital (2013).

5 See Olivier De Schutter, Trade in the Service of Sustainable Development 14–25 (2015).

6 See Carmen G. Gonzalez, Racial Capitalism, Climate Justice, and Climate Displacement, 11 Oñati Socio-Legal Series 108, 120–28 (2021).

7 See UNHCR Refugee Statistics, at https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics.

8 See Carmen G. Gonzalez, Migration as Reparation: Climate Change and the Disruption of Borders, 66 Loyola L. Rev. 402, 413–21 (2020) (discussing U.S. responsibility for the displacement of Central Americans).

9 See, e.g., Balakrishnan Rajagopal, International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements, and Third World Resistance (2003).

10 See generally The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice And Sustainable Development (Sumudu A. Atapattu, Carmen G. Gonzalez & Sara L. Seck eds., 2021) (analyzing environmental justice case studies from both the Global North and the Global South). For an overview of environmental justice movements in the Global South, see Usha Natarajan, Environmental Justice in the Global South, in The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice And Sustainable Development. For a concise history of the environmental justice movement in the United States, see Robin Morris Collin & Robert W. Collin, Environmental Justice and Sustainability: The United States Experience, in The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice And Sustainable Development.

11 See, e.g., Scott L. Cummings, Movement Lawyering, 2017 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1645 (2017); Amna A. Akbar, Sameer M. Ashar & Jocelyn Simonson, Movement Law, 73 Stan. L. Rev. 821 (2021).