Here we present you the five distinguished judges who each presided over one individual designated case as well as worked as a panel of judges overall are:
Valerie Cabanes for the Mer de Glace case
Valerie Cabanes is a legal expert in international law, specializing in human rights. She is the legal advisor for Stop Ecocide Foundation, also she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature since 2015 and one of the experts of the UN Harmony with Nature initiative network since 2016
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Tom Goldtooth for the French Guiana Case
Tom Goldtooth is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and has been involved with environmental related issues and programs working within tribal governments in developing indigenous-based environmental protection infrastructures
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Cormac Cullinan for the Lake Vattern Case
CORMAC CULLINAN is a director of the Wild Law Institute as well as of Cullinan & Associates Inc. a leading environmental law firm in Cape Town. He has drafted environmental laws, policies and strategies and advised on institutional reforms in more than 20 countries. Cormac’s ground-breaking book Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice developed the Earth jurisprudence approach and helped inspire the growing global rights of Nature movement
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Richard Falk for the Balkan Small River Dam Ecocide Case
Richard Falk is a professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University where he was a member of the faculty for 40 years. He currently is a Professor of Global Law, Queen Mary University London.. Falk has been nominated annually for the Nobel Peace Prize since 2009.
Richard A. Falk drafted an Ecocide Convention in 1973, explicitly recognizing at the outset “that man has consciously and unconsciously inflicted irreparable damage to the environment in times of war and peace.
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Lisa Mead for the Red Mud Case
Lisa Mead is a lawyer, educator and advocate for Earth rights. She runs the Earth Law Alliance and is a founding Steering Committee member of the Ecological Law & Governance Association. In 2018 she acted as Lead Counsel for Nature’s Rights at the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change. Lisa was an expert contributor to the UN’s 2016 Harmony with Nature Dialogue on Earth Jurisprudence and has advocated against marine depletion and for ocean rights at the International Rights of Nature Tribunal in Paris in December 2015, which coincided with COP21. Earlier in 2021 she acted as a judge in the European Tribunal on the Rights of Aquatic Ecosystems
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