Ecocide law: a new tool for Just Transition

Speakers:

Lisa Oldring is an independent law and policy advisor with specialization in international human rights and humanitarian law. As a senior advisor with the United Nations Human Rights Office, Lisa was the principal author of UN reports on global surveillance practices; human rights and counter-terrorism; the use of force within and outside armed conflict; among other issues. Currently Lisa is a PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, focusing on ecocide as a crime under international law.

Kate Mackintosh is the Executive Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law. She served as the deputy chair of the independent legal panel which presented a legal definition of ecocide as a crime in 2021. Kate has worked in the fields of human rights, international criminal justice, and the protection of civilians for over two decades. She was involved in the development of international criminal law in its fledgling years. She also contributed to defining many elements of this new area of law, such as the elements of rape as an international crime, the definition of protected persons, and the scope of complicity for international crimes.