Climate Change and the Rule of Law Conference | Session 6: CRROL in the Courts 2

This two day conference was organised by the UCL Centre for Law and Environment and took place on Thursday 31 March - Friday 1 April 2022.

This major conference brought together key thinkers, including scholars, policymakers, civil society representatives, legal practitioners, judges and PhD students, to reflect on the connections and tensions between the rule of law and climate change.

There are many and complex links between the climate crisis and rule of law. Without rule of law values, any sustained response to climate change is increasingly difficult, whilst the instability threatened by climate change may place rule of law values at risk. In a quick-fire round of five minute contributions, we begin to set out the centrality of rule of law to our current crisis, from diverse functional and geographical perspectives.

This session on 'Climate Change and the Rule of Law in the Courts 2?' was chaired by Professor Lisa Vanhala (UCL Department of Political Science) and speakers include:

- Professor Gitanjali Gill (Northumbria University)
Climate Change and the Indian Judiciary through a Transformative Lens

- Professor Liz Fisher (University of Oxford)
Climate Change, Statutory Construction, and Legal Imagination

- Professor Jackie Peel (University of Melbourne)
Recipe for success? Lessons for Successful Strategic Climate Claims

- Professor Ceri Warnock (University of Otago)
The Principle of Legality: Normalising Climate Change Considerations in
Litigation?