Thursday, October 25, 12–1:15 p.m.
Rountree Hall, Room 204
Join the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy (IPLP) Program for our Fall 2018 Speaker Series to learn from leading legal advocates.
Catherine Iorns Magallanes is a Reader in the School of Law at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on environmental law, indigenous rights, and statutory interpretation. Professor Iorns will discuss four recent examples and how they implement different frameworks, from indigenous conceptions of responsibility for nature, to rights-based approaches, and even a hybrid of three approaches. She suggests that rights–including rights for nature–are useful tools, but also that tools which impose or implement collective responsibility may be even more useful.
*All IPLP speaker series events are free and open to the public and take place at the James E. Rogers College of Law, 1201 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to law-iplp@email.arizona.edu.
Speaker Bio
Catherine Iorns Magallanes is a Reader in the School of Law at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on environmental law, indigenous rights, and statutory interpretation.
She is a member of the International Law Association Committee on the Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, and she holds an LLM from Yale Law School. She has won two writing prizes for her work on indigenous environmental issues.