The Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law and The Dean Rusk Center, will host the conference…
“International Human Rights and Climate Change”
-February 12, 2010,
at the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, Georgia.
-*Thomas Pogge*, of Yale University, will present the keynote address:
“Poverty, Climate Change, and Overpopulation,” exploring the extent to which the struggles to deal with these three phenomena are in competition with one another and/or synergistic, using a human rights standard as a common metric of assessment.
-The day long conference will take the form of a moderated round table discussion, with a lunchtime keynote address.
-Topics: The United Nations’ Process of Linking Human Rights and Climate Change; Potential Human Rights Effects of Proposed Climate Change Regime; Litigation— including Citizen Suits, Judicial Review, and Access to Information; Human Rights and Environmental Regulation; Climate Change Refugees.
-The conference is slated to offer 5.5 MCLE Credits, including 1 Trial Practice and 1 Professionalism Credit.
Participants include: Prof. Peter Appel, University of Georgia; Prof. Dan Bodansky, University of Georgia; Prof. John Bonine, University of Oregon; Prof. Rebecca Bratspies, City University of New York; Prof. Harlan Cohen, University of Georgia; Prof. John Knox, Wake Forest University; Prof. Svitlana Kravchenko, University of Oregon; Ms. Elizabeth O’Sullivan, US EPA Region 4; Prof. Naomi Roht-Arriaza, University of California, Hastings College of Law; and Prof. Dinah Shelton, George Washington University.
More information can be found at:
If you have any further questions, please contact: Blake McDaniel, Executive Conference Editor, at:
gjiclconference@gmail.com or (229) 522-0790.
