Global Environmental Justice Conference 2020
 

Schedule

Day One
Saturday, November 14
   
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12:00p Opening Reception
Connect with colleagues and mingle in the virtual lounge before the conference begins.
Day One
Opening Session
   
1:00p Welcome Ingrid C. "Indy" Burke
Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean, Yale School of the Environment
  Opening Remarks Graciela Chichilnisky
CEO & Co-founder, Global Thermostat Professor of Economics and Statistics, Columbia University
  Message from the Conference Co-Chairs Gerald Torres
Professor of Environmental Justice, Yale School of the Environment

Amity Doolittle
Senior Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment

 

Day One
Panels
   
1:30p

Must Diplomats Choose Between Promoting Justice and Their National Interests? Reflections of a multilateral negotiator.

Presenter
Jennifer Haverkamp
Graham Family Director; Graham Sustainability Institute,  Professor from Practice, Michigan Law School, University of Michigan
3:00p Break
3:30p

Role of Justice in UN Institutions

Presenter
Daniel Bodansky
Regents’ Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
5:00p

Career Chat

Host
Kevin Doyle
Executive Director, Career Development Office, Yale School of the Environment

Participating Presenters
Jennifer Haverkamp, Daniel Bodansky, Antonio Herman Benjamin, Alfred Brownell, Catherine Iorns, and David Cordero-Heredia.
5:45p Break
Day One
Documentary 
   
 

Mossville: When Great Trees Fall - Streaming access included with registration

8:15p

Post Screening Conversation

host

Thomas Easley
Assistant Dean of community and Inclusion, Yale School of the Environment

Joined by members of the Mossville creative team

Michelle Lanier
Executive Producer

Catherine Rierson

Producer

Day Two
Sunday, November 15
   
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Day Two
Panels
   
10:00a

Environmental Defenders: The role of NGO’s in human rights conflicts

Justice Antonio Herman Benjamin
Justice at the National High Court of Brazil (STJ)

Alfred Brownell
Executive Director, Green Advocates;Tom & Andi Bernstein Visiting Human Rights Fellow; Yale Law School
12:00p Break
1:30p

Rights and Responsibilities in Relation to the Natural World; Reframing conceptions of justice

Catherine Iorns
Professor of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

David Cordero-Heredia
Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Centre of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE)
Day Two
Affinity Group Conversations
   
3:30p Airmeet Tables

 

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