Race, Climate Justice, and International Law
Channel: Schulich Law
Date: 03/03/2021

The 12th Annual Douglas M. Johnston Leture, featuring Professors Carmen G. Gonzalez and James T. Gathii of Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

This event is co-sponsored by the Schulich School of Law, SSHRC Research Development Fund and the Marine & Environmental Law Institute at Dalhousie University.

Co-presented by the Global Network for Human Rights & the Environment and AfronomicsLaw.

Carmen Gonzalez is a world-renowned expert in international environmental law, human
rights and the environment, environmental justice, and food security, and has participated in
environmental law capacity-building projects in Asia, Latin America, and the former Soviet
Union. Gonzalez is the co-editor of the critically acclaimed book, Presumed Incompetent:
The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (2012). Recent co-edited
books include International Environmental Law and the Global South (Cambridge University Press 2015), Energy Justice: US and International Perspectives (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018), and forthcoming The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development. She is also Professor Emerita at Seattle University School of Law.

James T. Gathii is a founding member of the Third World Approaches to International Law,
(TWAIL), network and an elected member of the International Academy of International
Law. He is a founding editor of the Afronomicslaw.org blog on international economic issues as they relate to Africa and the Global South as well as the African Journal of International Economic Law (AfJIEL). In June 2020, he was the Grotius Lecturer at the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law. He has published extensively including four books: African Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes (Cambridge University Press, 2011, Paperback 2013), War, Commerce and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2010), The Contested Empowerment of Kenya’s Judiciary, 2010-2015: A Historical Institutional Analysis, (Sheria Publishing House, 2016),
and the edited volume The Performance of Africa’s International Courts: Using Litigation
for Political, Legal and Social Change, (Oxford University Press, 2020).