Video Presentations from Barry Law Symposium Now Available Online

More than 150 environmental activists, members of the scientific community, lawyers and educators from across the country gathered Feb. 29 at the Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law for the nation’s first-ever Earth Jurisprudence Symposium. Titled “Framing an Earth Jurisprudence for a Planet in Peril,” the symposium explored the need to re-envision law from an earth-centered perspective, particularly in light of increasing concern about climate change. In addition to those who attended the event at the Law School, the symposium was seen in six countries (Canada, Ireland, England, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands) and across the United States (Fla., Texas, Kan., N.C., Ohio, N.Y., Washington, D.C., Pa., Mich., Wis., Ill., and Mass.).

Topics of the symposium included “Ethical Considerations for a New Jurisprudence,” “Indigenous Tenets for an Era of Climate Change,” “Inuit, Global Warming and Human Rights: The Right to Be Cold,” “Law for an Ecological Age,” “Recovery of Natural Law as a Paradigm for a New Jurisprudence,” and “Do Humans Have Standing to Deny Trees Rights?”

Photos from the symposium and videos of these presentations are now available on the Center for Earth Jurisprudence website free of charge. They can be accessed by clicking here.

The CEJ is jointly sponsored by Barry and St. Thomas University in Miami. The first of its kind in the United States, the CEJ’s mission is to re-envision law and governance in ways that support and protect the well-being of the Earth. It creates new ways of responding to the ecological challenges of the 21st century.