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All events take place
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School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG |
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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW RESEARCH SEMINARS
SOAS LAW DEPARTMENT |
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Terrorism: The Imperfect Excuse - From India's Prevention of Terrorism Act to Guantanamo Bay
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Law Researcher, New Delhi
21 November 2003, SOAS, Room G52, 1pm-2:30pm |
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The Developments of Environmental Law in Pakistan: Judicial Activism to the Rescue
Dr Parvez Hassan
Advocate, Supreme Court and High Courts of Pakistan, President of the Pakistan Environmental Lawyers Association
Monday, 19th May 2003, 5:30-7:00pm, Room G3 |
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Exiling to conserve: A judiciary's agenda in India
Dr Usha Ramanathan, Law researcher, New Delhi
Tuesday, 13th May 2003, 5:30-7:00pm, Room G52 |
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Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law - The Case of Climate Change
Lavanya Rajamani, Fellow in Law, Queen's College, Cambridge University
Tuesday, 18th March 2003, 5:30-7:00pm, Room B103
(Brunei Gallery, opposite SOAS main building)
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Plant variety protection: Is there a threat to biodiversity?
Dr Dwijen Rangnekar, Senior Research Fellow, University College London
Tuesday, 11th March 2003, 5:30-7:00pm, Room B103 (Brunei Gallery, opposite SOAS main building)
Dwijen Rangnekar is a Senior Research Fellow on Policy Innovation at the School of Public Policy, University College, London (UK), where he is leading a three-year project on patient groups and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds a PhD in Economics on plant breeding from Kingston University. He has been actively working on a wide variety of subjects concerning intellectual property rights and innovation in the areas of agriculture (plant breeding) and pharmaceuticals. This work includes consultancy work for the UK government’s Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, UNCTAD, and ICTSD, as well as civil society organisations like Actionaid, OXFAM and Panos. His research has been published in high-profile academic journals and well-respected broadsheet newspapers. |
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Water as a human right: future challenges
Dr Jona Razzaque, Staff lawyer, Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, London
Tuesday, 4th March 2003, 5:30-7:00pm, Room 116
Jona Razzaque is a barrister. She received her PhD on 'Public Interest Environmental Litigation in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh' in 2001 from the University of London. She authored a number of articles on access to environmental justice and worked as a consultant with UNEP on a joint initiative with the UN High Commission of Human Rights on 'Human Rights and the Environment.' She also worked as Outreach Co-ordinator with the Environmental Law Foundation and organized several training workshops on human rights and the environment. She teaches public international law in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy in SOAS. Her research interest lies in human rights, trade and environment, planning law, biodiversity and climate change.
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The Global Environment Facility in practice
Zoe Young, Co-Director, Conscious Cinema Productions, London
Tuesday, 11th February 2003, 5:30-7:00pm, Room FG01 (Faber building, inside North-west corner of Russell Square)
Zoe Young is a researcher, author of A New Green Order? The World Bank and the Politics of the Global Environment Facility (Pluto Press, 2002) and co-director of Conscious Cinema Productions Ltd.
This seminar will include the screening of a 40' documentary by Zoe Young on a project implemented by the GEF in southern India.
About the film: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) looks promising on paper - with two and a half billion dollars from the world's governments to spend in support of global climate and biodiversity agreements, and an inclusive, democratic model of governance. But given its legal, political and cultural contexts, can it live up to the rhetoric? This film takes a long zoom from one remote tribe in Nagarhole, South India, affected by a tiger conservation project - India Ecodevelopment - funded by GEF, to another, more powerful, in Washington DC, via heated debate between activists and World Bank staff. |
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Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol - A legal landscape
James Cameron, Of Counsel, Baker & MacKenzie, London
Thursday, 5th December 2002, 5:30-7:00pm, Room 116 |
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The Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development
Alexandre Dufresne, MA candidate - Graduate Institute of Development Studies, Geneva and
Nick Francis, MA candidate - Law Department, SOAS
Friday, 29th November 2002, 3:00-5:00pm, Main School Lecture Theatre (basement)
This seminar will include the screening of a 30' documentary on the Johannesburg Summit entitled 'The Summit' by Nick Francis and Max Pugh. |
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Climate change negotiations and the perspectives from the South
Dr Saleemul Huq, Director, Climate Change Programme, International Institute for Environment and Development, London
Thursday, 7th November 2002, 5:30-7:00pm, Room G60 |
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Human Rights and the Environment
Public lecture by Professor Dinah Shelton, Notre Dame University, USA
Thursday 21st February 2002, 11:00am-1:00pm, Room G2
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Investment and the environment
Kevin Gray, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Tuesday 26th February 2002, 5:30-7:00pm, Room G50 |
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Development of renewable energy
Magnus Rodrigeus, lawyer
Thursday 7th March 2002, 5:30-7:00pm, Room 379 |
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South Africa: Asbestos Cases
Sapna Malik, Leigh Day, London
Thursday 14th March 2002, 5:30-7:00pm, Room 379 |
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