The following article was published in the November 2024 issue of the International Review of Contemporary Law, the journal of the IADL, focusing on climate and social justice.
Introduction
by Evelyn Dürmayer
The first article by Patricia Cordero Madrigal introduces the Escazú Agreement entering into force on 22 April 2021.
Patricia Cordero Madrigal was a vice minister on environment at the government of Costa Rica and engaged in the creation and the functioning of this Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mazin Qumsiyeh is the director of Palestine Institute of Biodiversity & Sustainability and Palestine Museum of Natural History at the Bethlehem University. Together with Charlotte Allombert they introduce their work, their program. Mazin Qumsiyeh travels and lectures around the world to demonstrate the possibilities for a sustainable environment in Bethlehem.
Anna Maddrick works with Stopecocide as a legal counsel and presents the association. Marjorie Cohn, former professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law at the University in San Diego, California summarizes the case of young people in Montana fighting successfully for their healthy environment, a model decision.
Declan Owens, Co-chair of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and International Secretary of the Socialist Lawyers Association of Ireland presents two UK organisations created in 2022 to raise awareness of the role of lawyers in defending earth protectors and protesters Lawyers Are Responsible (LAR) and Defend Our Juries (DOJ).
Erika Mendes (Justicia Ambiental) and Raffaele Morgantini (CETIM) in an English and Spanish Version discuss the UN binding treaty on “Green extractivism”.
Walter Sauer, a retired professor at the Economic and Social History Department at the University of Vienna, reviews the book by Philippe Sands “The last colony. A tale of Exile,Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy” by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (2022).
All articles published in the International Review of Contemporary Law reflect only the position of their author and not the position of the journal, nor of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers.