Climate Change and Law Seminars of CCLLAB continues with Richard J Rogers as the First Seminar of 2022-2023 Academic Year!

Climate Change and Law Seminars of CCLLAB continues with Richard J Rogers as the First Seminar of 2022-2023 Academic Year! 

At the first session of Climate Change and Law Seminars for this academic year, Kadir Has University Climate Change and Law Laboratory (CCLLAB) will be honored by the lecture of Richard J Rogers on Climate Security. Event is open to public via Zoom. No formal registration required; we would appreciate however if you confirm your participation by sending an e-mail to [email protected].

Richard J Rogers worked as a barrister in London, an attorney in San Francisco, and a senior United Nations lawyer at several UN war crimes. Richard has particular expertise in the cross-section between international criminal law and mass environmental destruction and testified to this issue before the US Congress. He is a founding partner of Global Diligence LLP, an international legal advisory firm specializing in international crime and human rights, and Executive Director of Climate Counsel, a non-profit that pursues environmental justice through international criminal law. Richard is on the advisory board of the Stop Ecocide Campaign and a Trustee of Sophia Point Rainforest Research Centre (Guyana). He has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, America and Europe. Richard was Deputy Co-Chair of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide, that released the proposed definition on 22 June 2021.