Sep 11, 2023 | Law & Justice
The environmental legal rights movement began in the 1970s, when justice William Orville Douglas stated in his dissenting opinion that ‘trees have standing’ too, in the case of Sierra Club V Morton [1]. At this time, the notion that natural resources ought...
May 2, 2023 | Law & Justice, Uncategorized
Our Children’s Trust OCT is a non-profit public interest law firm that helps young people by offering legal services and supporting their actions to help protect their right to a safe climate. It has two main guiding principles: OCT “advocates on behalf of...
Oct 27, 2022 | Environmental Law, Law & Justice, Uncategorized
How is Environmental Protection defined in English Criminal Law? Why does this differ from the usual definitions of criminal responsibility? Within the ordinary scope of English Criminal Law, there are two primary forms of criminal responsibility: the physical act of...
Feb 5, 2022 | Law & Justice
What is climate litigation? Within climate litigation, there are several types of claims. One category seeks to improve government mitigation policies by demonstrating the insufficiency of current measures and now makes up 80% of all climate litigation [3, 4]. As...
