Barry University Law Review and the Center for Earth Jurisprudence together present a symposium in Orlando. It will open with the renowned performance of “A Sense of Wonder,” a one-woman play about the life of Rachel Carson by Kaiulani Lee. Click here to view a recent profile of Rachel Carson by Bill Moyers.
Committed presenters and topics at Friday's symposium - WHICH WILL BE WEBCAST LIVE, CHECK http://www.earthjuris.org/events/02-08symposium/videostream.htm -include the following:
Cormac Cullinan, Environmental lawyer, Winstanley and Cullinan, Capetown, SA, and author of Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice: "Do Humans Have Standing To Deny Tree Rights?"
Donald Goldberg, who helped found the Center for International Environmental Law in 1989 and currently advises its Climate Change Program in addition to starting his own center, the Center for Climate, Law, and Policy Initiative, which addresses global climate change and vulnerable communities: "Inuit, Global Warming, and Human Rights: The Right To Be Cold."
Joseph H. Guth, Legal Director for Science & Environmental Health Network, whose principal legal work at SEHN is the transformation of the law so that it will promote preservation of the earth rather than accept environmental destruction as a byproduct of economic growth: "Law for the Ecological Age."
Andrew Kimbrell, environmental lawyer and Director of the Center for Food Safety and the International Center for Technology Assessment: "Recovery of Natural Law as a Paradigm for a New Jurisprudence."
Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe activist, Program Director of the Honor the Earth Fund, and founding Director for White Earth Land Recovery Project: "Indigenous Tenets for an Era of Climate Change."
Barbara Wall, Special Assistant to the President for Mission Effectiveness and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University; and founding Editor of Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, a journal focusing on Catholic social thought: "Ethical Considerations for a New Jurisprudence."
The Florida Bar has approved the symposium for 7 CLE credits (2 ethics) (INPERSON ONLY).
To register, go to http://www.earthjuris.org/events.htm The Center for Earth Jurisprudence re-envisions law and governance for the health and sustainability of the Earth community as a whole, including humans.
