"The Stop Ecocide Foundation is a charitable fundraising and commissioning body, operating in close partnership with global advocacy non-profit organisation, Stop Ecocide International, towards shared objectives" Stop Ecocide International website If you are on X, see @EcocideLaw.
Book: Eradicating Ecocide 2nd edition: Laws and Governance to Stop the Destruction of the Planet by Polly Higgins (RIP). "In Eradicating Ecocide, international environment lawyer and Ecocide law expert Polly Higgins sets out to demonstrate how our planet is fast being destroyed by the activities of corporations and governments, facilitated by ‘compromise’ laws that offer insufficient deterrence. She offers a solution that is radical yet pragmatic, and, as she explains, necessary." Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Eradicating-Ecocide-2nd-Governance-Destruction/dp/0856835080
AGs Advancing State and National Environmental Protections: An Overview of Current Actions "State attorneys general (AGs) play a critical role in initiating and advancing national and state-level reforms. As the top law enforcement officers in their states, AGs advocate through a variety of means, including filing regulatory comments, pursuing litigation, defending actions, and using their platform to provide public education or call out corporate behavior."
December 2023
United States: https://public.flourish.studio/story/2092665/
Ecocide 'Criminalizing Ecocide' by Rebecca J. Hamilton - forthcoming in (2025) Harvard Human Rights Journal "Amid widespread acknowledgment that we live on a planet in peril, the term "ecocide" packs a powerful rhetorical punch. Extant regulatory approaches to environmental protection feel insufficient in the face of the triple threat of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. International criminal prosecution for ecocide, by contrast, promises to meet the moment, and a recent proposal to introduce ecocide into the canon of core international crimes is gaining traction."
Early knowledge but delays in climate actions: An ecocide case against both transnational oil corporations and national governments by Hauser, Stephan Jacques Vaden, Tere Nagatsu, Michiru Obeng-Odoom, Franklin Eronen, Jussi T. "Recent articles have demonstrated the knowledge and accuracy of oil corporations’ predictions made since the 1950s on the effects of their products on the global environment. But can the early relationship between oil corporations and national governments and lack of climate actions by both actors count as ecocide? If so, should remedial strategies appeal to freer markets for oil or greater state regulation?"
September 2024
Reconceptualising the crimes of Big Tech by Penny Crofts "Big Tech holds out a mythology of exceptionalism – promising disruption and innovation, operating on a pristine, otherworldly, abstract, imaginary plane – that is, the immaterial rather than the material. It holds itself out as different and separate from the ‘old’ economy and its concerns about material harms to people and the environment."
March 11, 2024
For students:
OPPORTUNITY FOR 2025 Graduates: GRUBER FELLOWSHIP in Global Justice and Women’s Rights September 19, 2024 "CPD IS HOSTING a lunch and information session for students with Mindy Jane Roseman, the Director of International Law Programs and Director of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights at Yale Law School." https://careers.environment.yale.edu/blog/2024/09/04/opportunity-for-2025-graduates-gruber-fellowship-in-global-justice-and-womens-rights/
The Society of Writers to His Majesty’s Signet (known as the WS Society) (Scottish charity SC050987) Applications for 2025 scholarships will open in March 2025. For more information, please contact Sophie Mills (smills@wssociety.co.uk)."This year, research topics included EU environmental law, family law and international children’s rights, and the Post Office Limited / Horizon IT scandal." https://www.wssociety.co.uk/signet-post-articles/2024/8/28/third-cohort-of-summer-scholars Read more: The Eu "Ecocide" Law: An Analysis of the 2024 Environmental Crime Directive August 31, 2024 https://www.wssociety.co.uk/features/2024/7/30/scholars
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