Law & environment in Mexico City

I was delighted to spend a couple of days with Alejandra Rabasa at the Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

Alejandra is Director of the Judicial Education Program at the Environmental Law Institute, and is also working on a unique and exciting interdisciplinary Ph.D. to evaluate Mexican judges’ verdicts about the environment.

We are collaborators on a new project, funded by the Swedish Postal Foundation and in collaboration with the Indonesian Centre for Environmental Law, to look at how Indonesian judges approach civil liability for environmental harm in the contexts of forest and land fires. This collaboration reflects an effort to better integrate the work of conservationists, economist and lawyers, and to advance our understanding of environmental law as a social practice central to further the sustainability agenda.

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