CCLLAB Climate Change and Law Seminars – Richard J. Rogers

Kadir Has University Climate Change and Law Laboratory (CCLLAB) continues its series of events on legal aspects of Climate Change. At the first session of 2022-2023 academic year, we will be honored to welcome Richard J. Rogers with his lecture “Climate Security: How Global Warming Leads to Armed Conflict and Atrocity Crimes” on Friday, October 21, at 2:00 pm (Istanbul Time) on Zoom.  

Richard J Rogers worked as a barrister in London, an attorney in San Francisco, and a senior United Nations lawyer at several UN war crimes. Richard has particular expertise in the cross-section between international criminal law and mass environmental destruction and testified to this issue before the US Congress. He is a founding partner of Global Diligence LLP, an international legal advisory firm specializing in international crime and human rights, and Executive Director of Climate Counsel, a non-profit that pursues environmental justice through international criminal law. Richard is on the advisory board of the Stop Ecocide Campaign and a Trustee of Sophia Point Rainforest Research Centre (Guyana). He has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, America and Europe. Richard was Deputy Co-Chair of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide, that released the proposed definition on 22 June 2021.

Zoom Meeting ID: 838 8230 0853 Password: 766504

The event will be held in English and open to the public via Zoom. No formal registration is required, but we would appreciate it if you confirm your participation by sending an e-mail to [email protected].