We are very excited to welcome Prof César Rodríguez Garavito, albeit virtually, to Stanford Law School. Professor Garavito will speak about the potential impact and possible limitations of human rights-based climate change (HRCC) litigation.

César Rodríguez-Garavito is a Professor of Clinical Law and Chair and Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. He is a human rights and environmental justice scholar and practitioner whose interests focus on global governance, climate change, socio economic rights, business and human rights, and the human rights movement.

Rodríguez-Garavito is the Founding Director of the Climate Litigation Accelerator. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Open Global Rights and has served as a strategy advisor to leading international and domestic human rights organizations in different parts of the world. He has been an expert witness for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, an Adjunct Judge of the Constitutional Court of Colombia, a member of the Science Panel for the Amazon, and a lead litigator in climate change, socioeconomic rights, and Indigenous rights cases.

Rodríguez-Garavito is a Distinguished Fellow at the National Foundation for India and a member of the strategic litigation advisory panel at Conectas Human Rights (Brazil). He has served as director of Dejusticia, the Global Justice and Human Rights Program, and the Center for Socio-Legal Research at the University of los Andes (Colombia). He has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School, Brown University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Pretoria (South Africa), and the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil).

Rodríguez-Garavito is co-editor of Cambridge University Press’s Globalization and Human Rights book series, and has served on the editorial boards of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science and the Business and Human Rights Journal. He serves on the boards of WITNESS, the University Network for Human Rights, and Columbia University’s Center on Sustainable Investment. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. from NYU’s Institute for Law and Society, an M.A. in Philosophy from the National University of Colombia, and a J.D. from the University of the Andesundefined