Conference on Access to Justice

Stanford University (USA), 2 May 1998.

This one-day Conference focused on the ways in which access to environmental justice has been recognized and implemented at both the international and domestic levels. It included a Keynote speech by:

• Charles Siegal
  Munger, Toles & Olson

And the four following panels:

1) Conceptual Bases of a Human Right to Environment

2) Enforcement by International Adjudicative Bodies

3) Enforcement at the Domestic Level: The US Experience

4) Strengthening Existing Legal and Institutional Mechanisms

Speakers included

• Michael Anderson
  British Institute of International and Comparative Law

• Professor John Barton
  Stanford Law School

• Meg Caldwell
  Stanford Law School

• Luke Cole
  California Rural Legal Assistance

• Marsha Freeman
  International Women's Rights Action Watch

• Professor Thomas Heller
  Stanford Law School

• Michelle Leighton
  Natural Heritage Institute

• Professor Armin Rosencranz
  Stanford University

• Professor Naomi Roht-Arriaza
  UC Hastings College of Law

• Victoria Sanford
  Stanford University

• Professor Dinah Shelton
  Notre Dame Law School

• Lyuba Zarsky
  Nautilus Institute for Security Institutions