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The UCL Centre for Law and Environment Annual Lecture presented by Prof. Philippe Sands KC. Part of the UCL200 programme.
Organised by the UCL Centre for Law and Environment
About the speaker:
Professor Philippe Sands KC is Professor of Law at UCL Faculty of Laws (UK) and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, a practising barrister and arbitrator who has addressed environmental issues before international courts and tribunals, and award-winning novelist.
About the event:
In 2020 Philippe Sands was invited to co-chair a working group to define a new international crime of ecocide. In this lecture, he will explore his own engagement with environmental issues, from childhood to the Chernobyl accident (the subject of his first book), to cases before the International Court of Justice and other tribunals. His next book, to be published in 2027, is on Ecocide, the fifth international crime.
The UCL Centre for Law and Environment Annual Lecture presented by Prof. Philippe Sands KC. Part of the UCL200 programme.
Organised by the UCL Centre for Law and Environment
About the speaker:
Professor Philippe Sands KC is Professor of Law at UCL Faculty of Laws (UK) and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, a practising barrister and arbitrator who has addressed environmental issues before international courts and tribunals, and award-winning novelist.
About the event:
In 2020 Philippe Sands was invited to co-chair a working group to define a new international crime of ecocide. In this lecture, he will explore his own engagement with environmental issues, from childhood to the Chernobyl accident (the subject of his first book), to cases before the International Court of Justice and other tribunals. His next book, to be published in 2027, is on Ecocide, the fifth international crime.
