Environmental lawyers come to Lancaster

Two remarkable environmental lawyers, Alejandra Rabasa (Environmental Law Institute) and Amir Sokolowsi (Climate Law and Policy), joined us for several days in Lancaster to consider the question “How do we characterize and measure environmental harm?”.

This is part of a growing line of work on legal liability for environmental harm, which brings conservationists together with litigators, academic lawyers, economists and judges to consider legal responses to acts (e.g., illegal deforestation, wildlife trade) that harm the environment—particularly tropical biodiversity (see Jones et al. 2015).