Members of the research team will be participating in the upcoming 7th annual environmental law conference hosted by the Journal of Environmental Law and Practice. The theme of the conference is Back to the Future: Re-Defining Canada’s Environmental Priorities, and it will be held at the Lester B Pearson United World College in Victoria, BC. The draft program is available HERE.
Read moreGraduation
We are pleased to announce that a University of Ottawa graduate student in the Faculty of Law working on issues related to environmental justice has recently graduated.
Congratulations to Carla Sbert, who successfully defended her PhD! Carla’s thesis, “Mining from the Lens of Ecological Law: Obstacles and Opportunities for Re-formation”, offers an important new understanding of ecological law in the context of mining.
Environmental Justice Research Fellowship 2019-2020
This year’s recipient of the Environmental Justice Research Fellowship is Anna Romaniszyn, a LLM candidate in Global Sustainability and Environmental Law at the University of Ottawa. Anna will be working on the climate justice case study.
Read moreCarbon Pricing on Trial
The University of Ottawa’s Institute of the Environment will be hosting a panel on the constitutionality of Canada’s carbon pricing law, which Saskatchewan and Ontario have challenged. Three of the lawyers involved, including project member Nathalie Chalifour, who is acting as counsel for the United Chiefs of the Mnidoo Mnising, will discuss the recent hearing, the arguments and the implications of this landmark case.
Read moreTwelve Years Left to Save the World!? Climate Change and the Future of Global Governance
Professor Nathalie Chalifour will be participating on a special panel on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report 15: “Global Warming of 1.5℃ , presented by the Centre for International Policy Studies on February 28, 2019 from 10:30am-12:00pm at FSS4007, 120 University Private, University of Ottawa.
Read moreWhy 'Frankenfoods' Need Feminism
Angela Lee will be giving a presentation on “Why ‘Frankenfoods’ Need Feminism” as part of Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s Speaker Series on March 1, 2019, from 1:00-2:30pm in room 202, Macdonald Hall, Queen’s University.
Read moreAre cows really killing the planet and what does law have to do with it?
PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO INCLEMENT WINTER WEATHER AND THE CLOSURE OF THE UNIVERSITY, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
On February 13, 2019, Don Buckingham, President and CEO of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, will be presenting as part of the CELGS Environmental Law Speaker Series. His presentation is titled “Are cows really killing the planet and what does law have to do with it?”.
The event will take place from 11:30am-12:50pm at FTX 351.
The Intersection of Animal and Environmental Law
On February 28, 2019 from 11:30am to 1:00pm, Professor Heather McLeod-Kilmurray will participate in a panel on “The Intersection of Animal and Environmental Law”, along with Josh Ginsberg from Ecojustice and Stephen Hazell from Nature Canada.
The event will be held in CRX 308, and food will be served!
Extracting Environmental Justice: A Joint Panel Q&A
Professors Nathalie Chalifour and Heather McLeod-Kilmurray, along with their colleagues Salvador Herencia and Professors Penelope Simons and Aimée Craft will be participating in a joint panel Q&A on environmental justice on Thursday, February 7, 2019 from 11:30am - 1:00pm in FTX 137. The panel will engage in a critical dialogue on the harmful impacts of natural resource extraction on marginalized communities.
The event is co-hosted by the Indigenous Law Students Association, the Environmental Law Students Association, Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) uOttawa, and Level Justice.
All are welcome, and lunch will be provided! Please note that the event will be in English.
Disrupting Dominant Discourses of Food Systems & Food Movements
Professor Heather McLeod-Kilmurray will be part of a panel discussion on “Disrupting Dominant Discourses of Food Systems & Food Movements”, hosted by the University of Windsor Faculty of Law on January 23, 2019 from 12:00pm-2:00pm.
This panel brings together academics and practitioners concerned with food law to discuss some issues on sustainable food sourcing, production, and circulation. What does sustainable mean? What is a food system? Who does it sustain and who is it sustained by? Some of the topics that will be discussed include Indigenous food sovereignty, urban agriculture in Detroit and local communities, migrant worker rights, and food law and policy in Canada more generally.
