Wild Law Workshop Papers

UKELA has been involved in various Wild Law activities over the last few years, including a series of seminars, lectures and residential workshops which have drawn international participation. Reports have been produced on each annual workshop and in many instances published in Environmental Law and Management (ELM). Those articles are reproduced below by kind permission of ELM which is published by Lawtext Publishing. For more details on upcoming events and how to get involved follow this link to the Wild Law Events, organised by Wild Law Special Interest Group.

Wild Law Workshop 2009: Biodiversity and Resilience

The 2009 Workshop was held at the Magdalen Project on the Dorset/Somerset border. It brought together an array of lawyers and non-lawyers from academia, private and public practice, people with decades of experience of environmental law and those just setting out. What linked everyone though was the ever strengthening conviction that law as currently conceived doesn’t meet the problems we face, either in theory or in practice.

Dr Stephan Harding from Schumacher College spoke on “Gaia, Reslience, Biodiversity.” To read an account of his presentation and the rest of the weekend click on the report below.

Wild Law Workshop 2009 Report ELM (Adobe Acrobat)

Wild Law Workshop 2008: Is there evidence of existing Wild Law?

The 2008 Workshop launched research carried out by UKELA jointly with the Gaia Foundation. This lead directly to the first international research paper on earth jurisprudence which was published in March 2009. There was also an evening seminar in London on Wild Law responses to Climate Change. All the papers from these meetings are below.

International Research Paper (Adobe Acrobat)

Joe Guth presentation: Law for the Ecological Age (Adobe Acrobat)

Practising Wild Law - the Ethiopian Experience (paper by Mellese Damtie) (Adobe Acrobat)

Wild Law Weekend 2008 report (Adobe Acrobat)

Karla Hill paper (Adobe Acrobat)

Michael Mainelli paper (Adobe Acrobat)

Wild Law 2007 workshop

This weekend workshop in Derbyshire, attended by over 40 delegates from thirteen countries, was entitled “Getting Real About Climate Change.” A mock trial was held on the case of the disappearing rainforest, the fate of the orang-utan and the biofuel business. This gave a glimpse of what wild law could look like in practice.

Speakers at the 2007 workshop

Wild Law Workshop 2007 papers (Adobe Acrobat)

Cormac Cullinan - taking climate change seriously (Adobe Acrobat)

Andrew Kimbrell - halting the global meltdown, can environmental law play a role? (Adobe Acrobat)

Peter Roderick - climate change in the courts (Adobe Acrobat)

Elizabeth Rivers - 10 principles of Wild Law learning and networking (Adobe Acrobat)

Melanie Strickland - fighting for earth justice (Adobe Acrobat)

Wild law conference and workshop 2006

The papers from the 2006 Wild Law Conference have been published by Environmental Law and Management (ELM) but are reproduced here with the kind permission of ELM. Environmental Law & Management is published by Lawtext Publishing Limited. Includes articles by Cormac Cullinan, Satish Kumar, Norman Baker MP, Elizabeth Rivers, Ian Mason.

Wild Law Workshop 2006 Papers in ELM (Adobe Acrobat)

Wild law conference 2005

The papers from the 2005 Wild Law Conference have been published by Environmental Law and Management (ELM) and are reproduced here with the kind permission of ELM. Includes articles by Cormac Cullinan, Michael Meacher MP, Prof Robert Lee, Prof Lynda Warren, Jacqui McGlade, Begonia Filgueira and Simon Boyle.

Wild Law 2005 Papers in ELM (Adobe Acrobat)

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