Speaker details

IBA Annual Litigation Forum 2022

27 Apr - 29 Apr 2022

Royal Lancaster London, London, England

Speaker information

Lucy Maxwell

Biography

Lucy Maxwell is a human rights lawyer and Senior Legal Associate at the Climate Litigation Network, a project of the Urgenda Foundation. Lucy specialises in strategic State-based climate litigation and advises on human rights obligations in the context of climate change. In current and previous roles, Lucy has worked with human rights defenders in Europe, South Africa and South Asia on a range of human rights claims arising under national, regional and international frameworks. Lucy and her colleagues have a recently published paper on ‘Standards for Adjudicating the Next Generation of Urgenda-Style Climate Cases’ available on SSRN here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3955144

Session

Panel 3: Tort law: a viable instrument in climate change actions against corporates?

Thursday 28 April (1430 - 1600)

Speaker

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