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Emily Barritt sill speak on "The foundations of the Aarhus Convention: Environmental democracy rights and stewardship".

The Aarhus Convention is an ambitious instrument of international environmental law. It seeks to promote numerous, wide-ranging goals from intergenerational justice to sustainable development in purist of environmental protection. In the book I dig deep into the foundations of the Convention, examining its potential through the lens of three foundational purposes – environmental democracy, environmental rights and stewardship. In so doing, I contribute to our understanding of the Convention and our understanding of three important purposes that inhabit environmental law, unraveling and reassembling them to build meaning into our broad-brush descriptions.

Emily Barritt is Lecturer in Law and the Co-Director of the Transnational Law Institute at King’s College London. Her research focuses on environmental democracy, access to justice, public participation, stewardship and climate change adjudication. Her recently published monography The Foundations of the Aarhus Convention: Environmental Democracy Rights and Stewardship (Hart Publishing 2020) is the first such work to uncover the ambitious scope of this important instrument of international environmental law. Alongside this research, she has been involved in various projects, including assessing legal options for the protection of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, the disruptive nature of climate change in courtrooms and assessing the role of beauty in understanding environmental law. Emily is now turning her work to uncovering the spiritual dimensions of environmental law, looking both at the theoretical idea behind this concept and at examples where spiritual factors have shaped adjudication and legal instruments.

Please note that participation in this conference is by invitation only.