Lawyers for Ecocide Law

The Stop Ecocide movement is inspired by years of work and research by visionary lawyer, Polly Higgins, who saw that creating an international crime of ecocide would be the most powerful and effective means of protecting the Earth. The movement continues to be supported, promoted and energised by far-sighted, passionate lawyers across the world.

In June 2021, the Independent Expert Panel, convened by our charitable arm, the Stop Ecocide Foundation concluded its groundbreaking drafting work and a proposed consensus definition of ecocide was announced.

Read theCommentary and Core Text.

Our sister website EcocideLaw.com is a comprehensive resource hub providing a regularly updated collection of adademic and legal material relating to “ecocide” law, including research articles, publications and related topics.

Rodrigo Lledó

Co-lead, Lawyers Network.
Americas Director, Stop Ecocide International.

Víctor Rujano Bautista

Co-lead, Lawyers Network.
Spanish Campaign Coordinator

Sue Miller

Chief Networks and Alliances Officer, Stop Ecocide International.

Legal Advisors to Business

Legislators, courts, investors and civil society are all converging around the idea that the most severe environmental harms should attract the highest level of responsibility - including criminal liability - for decision-makers.

Find out more here.

Defending Tomorrow

Through conversations with world-class legal experts, topics related and relevant to the environmental legal field will be discussed, in particular the global campaign for the recognition of Ecocide as a crime in the Rome Statute.

Presented by: Rodrigo Lledó and Victor Rujano.

Produced by SEI Lawyers Network.

Access all episodes here. All podcasts are also available as audio-only here.

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The more the legal world gets behind establishing ecocide crime, the more powerful the momentum to do so will become.

Some of the lawyers supporting ecocide law:

Prof Miguel Angel Asturias

Legal & academic

Víctor Rujano Bautista

Spanish Campaign Coordinator

Syeda Rizwana Hasan

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association. Panelist, Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide

Professor Philippe Sands KC

UCL/Matrix Law. Co-chair, Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide

Paulo Busse

Criminal, environmental and human rights lawyer. Climate Counsel Getulio Vargas Foundation. Co-director of the Environmental and Climate Crisis Practice Group of the Global Diligence Alliance

Paula Alvarado

Lawyer specialising in International Human Rights Law and expert in Indigenous Peoples and International Cooperation

Pablo Fajardo

Environmental activist and lawyer, winner of the Goldman Prize and the CNN Hero Award. Lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the famous Chevron-Texaco case

Michael Mansfield QC

Human Rights Lawyer

Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh

Associate Professor of Sustainability Law, University of Amsterdam

María Teresa Vicente Giménez

Professor of Philosophy of Law and Director of the Chair of Human Rights and Rights of Nature at the University of Murcia

Alex Whiting

Independent Expert Panel — Former International Criminal Court prosecutions coordinator; Professor, Harvard Law School

Kate Mackintosh

Deputy Chair, Independent Expert Panel — Executive Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA School of Law

Julio Prieto

Lawyer specialising in Environmental Law, Indigenous Rights and Rights of Nature. United Nations Expert on Earth Jurisprudence for the Harmony with Nature Programme