Carr-Ryan Conversations: Climate Change on Trial

Please join us for lunch to converse with Carr-Ryan Center Director Mathias Risse alongside César Rodríguez-Garavito about his new book: Climate Change on Trial: Mobilizing Human Rights Litigation to Accelerate Climate Action.

César Rodríguez-Garavito is Professor of Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. He is the founding director of the Earth Rights Research & Action (TERRA) Clinic and the More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program. Professor Rodríguez-Garavito is an Earth rights and human rights scholar and a field lawyer whose work focuses on international environmental law, Indigenous peoples’ rights and more-than-human rights. His contributions to Earth rights have been recognized with a More-Than-Human Fellowship by the London Design Museum and a spot in the UN Museum’s Top 10 Culture for Impact 2024 List. He is the author, most recently, of Climate Change on Trial: Mobilizing Human Rights Litigation to Accelerate Climate Action (Cambridge Univ. Press).