Global Threats to Environmental Human Rights Defenders
Event date
20 June 2017
Event time
17:30
Oxford week
Venue
Linacre College
Speaker(s)
Professor John Knox
Location: Tanner Room
The 2017 Linacre Lecture will be given by Professor John Knox.
Professor Knox is the Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law at Wake Forest University and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights and the environment. His work has included human rights obligations of corporations, the application of human rights law to climate change, citizen suits in international environmental law, and the extraterritorial application of U.S. law.