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The Environmental Law Institute seeks a dynamic Director to lead its groundbreaking Climate Judiciary Project to educate judges on the science and impacts of climate change. The Project enjoys widespread support of judges throughout the nation as well as the scientific, legal-scholarly, and philanthropic communities.  As it expanded in scope and effort over several years, led by current senior staff and volunteers, the need emerged for a fulltime Director to provide vision, planning, leadership, and overall operating management to take the Project to the

Co-authors J.B. Ruhl of Vanderbilt University Law School and Robin Kundis Craig of USC Gould School of Law discussed their article 4°C at the 2023 ELPAR Conference. The authors explore how scientific evidence indicates that the planet is well on its way to at least 4°C of warming—a scenario that presents categorically different adaptation challenges including large migrations within U.S. boundaries and suggest that a range of anticipatory governance practices to facilitate “redesign adaptation” should be initiated now, beginning with a new national foresight research program.

On Wednesday, March 29, 2023, the UN General Assembly adopted, by consensus, a resolution asking the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion layout what countries’ obligations are to protect the climate in order to secure human rights. Sandra Nichols Thiam, a climate law specialist at the nonprofit Environmental Institute, discusses the significance of this UNGA action.