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environmental law education at Allard and beyond; and to promote action
toward environmental justice and sustainability.
Cutting-Edge Environmental Law Events
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the centre increased its reach and impact
by holding virtual events that attracted people from around the world. One
example is the centre’s “No Fly Zone” virtual talks. This series is designed
to bring in legal thinkers and practitioners from around the world to speak
about cutting-edge environmental law issues, without generating travelrelated
greenhouse gas emissions. Recent “No Fly Zone” events include:
• March 2020: Rights of nature pioneer Mari Margil on the Rights of
Nature movement
• October 2020: American human rights lawyer Steven Donziger on
the Chevron–Ecuador oil contamination case
• October 2020: Canadian animal law pioneers Camille Labchuk and
Victoria Shroff on access to justice for animals
• November 2020: Anishinaabe lawyer Lindsay Borrows on learning
law from the land
• February 2021: Environmental health scholar Ingrid Waldron on
environmental racism
• March 2021: International lawyer Natalie Oman on the Notre
Affaire à Tous French climate change case
• September 2021: Australian lawyer David Barnden on the Sharma
decision declaring a government duty of care to avoid climate
change
• October 2021: German lawyer Roda Verheyen on the Constitutional
Court’s invalidation of the German climate change law
• October 2021: American lawyer Kelsey Skaggs on the Climate
Defense Project
• November 2021: Scottish lawyer Mumta Ito on the global Rights of
Nature campaign
Other recent public events include a keynote public talk in January 2021
by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, Dr.
David Boyd, who was introduced by environmental icon David Suzuki and
federal Green Party leader Annamie Paul. The centre also hosted a series of
webinars in November 2020 on climate change litigation by governments
against fossil fuel companies, a three-day virtual conference in May 2021
on food law and policy, and a webinar in May 2021 on how to file citizen