2025
15.07.2025: PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez co-organised and co-moderated the roundtable Advisory Opinion 32 of 2025: Climate Emergency and Human Rights. What’s Next? Coorganisers: Biodiversa+ Defendbio, The Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, University of Amsterdam, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia), University of the West Indies (Barbados) and the Association of African Human Rights Institutions.
25.06.2025 PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez presented the ERC Curiae Virides research methodology at the BSoG board meeting (VUB- Brussels).
6.6.2025 PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez was jury in the PhD thesis The Intersection of European Climate Policy and Global Trade Law: Legal Accommodation of CBAM to the WTO Rules. Faculty of Law VUB.
4.6.2025: PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez presented her research at the Sustainability Network Studio at the University of Warwick.
03.06.2025 Postdoctoral Researcher Kata Dozsa presented in person “Children’s rights in International Climate Litigation” at the Children’s Rights in Environmental and Climate Matters Conference, EMLA (J&E), Budapest.
29.05.2025 PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez presented the methodological aspects of mapping of transnational ecological conflicts and lawsuits at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Environmental Law and Economics at Firenze-Italy.
23.05.2025: PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas delivered a presentation entitled “The Responsibility of Financial and Banking Sector Actors under Value Chain Due Diligence Norms According to OECD NCP Case Law” at the EUIA Conference organised by the VUB in Brussels.
22.05.2025: PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez chaired the panel “Green transition for whom? A critical examination of the EU’s critical raw materials supply chains and their implications for human rights and environmental justice” at the EUIA Conference organised by the VUB in Brussels.
22.5.2025 PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez and PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas presented The multifaceted roles of investors in ecological conflicts and transnational litigation. at the EUIA Conference organised by the VUB in Brussels.
8.5.2025 PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez presented at the panel “The evolving protection of the right to a healthy environment before the Interamerican Court of Human Rights” at the Workshop Legal Mobilization before the IACtHR and ECtHR in an Environmental Context at the Faculty of Law (University of Ghent).
28.4.2025: PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez was jury of the PhD: Rural development projects in Latin America: understanding the critical factors for sustained impact at the University of Lisbon (Portugal).
11.4.2025 PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas organised the the event ‘The Tribunal’ Film produced by Malcolm Rogge. PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez was discussant.
05.04.2025 Postdoctoral Researcher Kata Dozsa presented in person “The Wind Whispers Project: Instersection of Law and Art in Climate Justice Research” at the SGCI 2025 Conference, Puerto Rico.
1.3.2025 PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez was guest professor at the European Law Students Association (ELSA) Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainability. Session on “Intellectual Property Rights, Sustainability, and Access to Benefit Sharing”. Brussels.
25.02.2025 Postdoctoral Researcher Kata Dozsa presented online at Justice & Environment Webinar “Climate rights, climate citizens from a child-rights perspective” at Climate Rights of Children in Europe, Justice & Environment Network Webinar.
19.2.2025 PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez: presented the Host room “Analysing Sustainability’ at the Workshop on Interdisciplinary Sustainability: Theory, Practice and Experience, organized by the Centre Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in collaboration with the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chlie (UTEM), and the University of the Philippines Diliman. USquare.
3.2.2025 PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez co-organized and chaired the event Water, land, law and governance: an interdisciplinary dialogue, co-organised by the ERC Curiae Virides, MSC Mother Earth and VUB Water and Climate. Brussels School of Governance.
2024
12.12.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez participated in the round table Remediation in action for responsible mining: A roundtable conversation on learnings, challenges and what’s needed next. Event organized by IPIS Research and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). Side event of the EU Raw Materials Week.
21.11.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented The fuzzy path of Transnational Ecological Conflicts through the Courts at the workshop litigation and dispute resolution in transnational ecological conflicts: The role of judicial and non-judicial mechanisms, Arusha- Tanzania.
21.11.2024 Researcher Jérôme Vanwelde delivered a presentation titled “Empirical legal studies and the issue of representativeness: An epistemological reflection on the use of environmental litigation databases” at the Workshop on “Litigation and dispute resolution in Transnational Ecological Conflicts” organized by the Curiae Virides team in Arusha, Tanzania.
21.11.2024 PhD Researcher Daniel Alejo delivered an online presentation entitled “Actors and Environmental Litigation in Africa: A Social Network Analysis of Actors and Courts in Transnational Ecological Conflicts” during the Workshop “Litigation and dispute resolution in Transnational Ecological Conflicts” organized by the Curiae Virides team in Arusha, Tanzania.
21.11.2024: Postdoctoral Researcher Kata Dozsa presented online “A Global Outlook on Climate Litigation involving Children – Successes and Pitfalls” at the Workshop Litigation and Dispute Resolution in Transnational Ecological Conflicts – The role of judicial and non-judicial mechanisms, organized by the Curiae Virides team in Arusha, Tanzania.
19.11.2024: PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas delivered a presentation entitled “Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Environmental Disputes according to the Soft Case-Law of the OECD NCPs” at the Workshop Litigation and Dispute Resolution in Transnational Ecological Conflicts – The role of judicial and non-judicial mechanisms, organized by the Curiae Virides team in Arusha, Tanzania.
19.11.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez chaired the panel on The Role of Regional and Sub-Regional Bodies in Adjudicating Ecological Conflicts at the Workshop litigation and dispute resolution in transnational ecological conflicts: The role of judicial and non-judicial mechanisms, Arusha- Tanzania.
25.10.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was jury at the public defence of the PhD Thesis Halting Aid in the Shade: A plea for mandatory home state regulation of private business activities in or pertaining to illegally occupied territories in light of the duty of non-assistance. VUB- Law Faculty.
15.10.2024 Postdoctoral Researcher Kata Dozsa presented in person “Climate rights, climate citizens with special regard to children” at Climate Rights Conference, Justice & Environment Network, Brussels.
10-11.10.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was invited by the Future Earth Research School (FERS) to teach in its Autumn School about Law, Finance, and Litigation. The sessions were about “Sustainable Finance and Responsible Corporate Behaviour”. (Bertorino- Italy.)
10-11.10.2024 Postdoctoral Researcher Kata Dozsa participated in person in the CFJ-EN Annual Seminar on Climate (In)Justice at VUB, delivering a workshop on “The Role of Environmental Organisations in Promoting Children’s Rights” and a panel presentation on “Challenges of Children’s Climate Movements.”
10.10.2024 Researcher Jérôme Vanwelde presented Curiae Virides’ draft article “The Curiae Virides Dataset on the Transformation of Transnational Ecological Conflicts into Litigation” at the ELS Academy Research School Annual Event 2024 (Erasmus University Rotterdam).
30.09–02.10.2024 Postdoctoral Researcher Kata Dozsa presented in person “The Wind Whispers Project: The Interface of Law and Art in Representing Children’s Voices” at the Youth Climate Justice Conference, University College Cork.
27.09.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented the ERC Curiae Virides Project in the Round Table Enfoques y metodologias al estudio sobre derecho y la naturaleza: dialogo entre proyectos, at Universidad Carlos III Madrid -Spain.
26.09.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was jury of the PhD Defense on Ríos y aguas en el derecho: Ontologías diversas, reivindicaciones históricas y disputas legales de los pueblos negros e indígenas en Colombia y Guatemala at the Universidad Carlos III Madrid-Spain.
14.09.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented The dynamics of transnational ecological conflicts and disputes, in the panel “Biodiversity and human rights: law and practice for a living Earth in an interconnected world “at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Association of Human Rights Institutes (University of Lund- Sweden).
29.08.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented Sustainability Due Diligence in the workshops on Analysing Sustainability: Tools and Methods organized by HOST (house of Sustainable transitions), VUB.
26.08–27.08.2024 Postdoctoral Researcher Kata Dozsa presented in person “Green Rights to Children? European Perspectives on Access to Justice for All through the SDG 16 Framework” at the FWO SRN Summer Workshop 2024, Hasselt University.
20.06.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez and PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas presented Empirical legal studies on transnational ecological conflicts that become lawsuits: conceptualisIng, measuring, revising at the European Society on Empirical Legal Studies Association Annual Conference (Elche, Spain)
31.05.2024: Postdoctoral Researcher Kata Dozsa presented online “The Duarte Agostinho Case at the ECtHR: What’s at Stake for Children and Future Generations?” at the Webinar on Climate Change and Human Rights, University of Göttingen.
21.05.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez chaired the Policy Forum Series 2024: Sustainable Trade & Environment – Coherence and Complexities of Trade Agreements at BsoG – Brussels School of Governance.
12.05.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented The Inter-American Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights and its implication for global climate litigation at the Climate cases at Landmark Climate Cases at the ECHR and IACHR – BSoG-VUB Joint Event.
06-07.05.2024 PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas and PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented the paper: Responsible corporate conduct in the framework of value chains: a global review of the micro role of shareholders and investors and the macro role of investment/development banks at the International exploratory research workshop: Sustainable Finance: between hard law, soft law and corporate governance. University of Southern Denmark, Odense Campus
03.05.2024. PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented on the The Inter-American Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights and its implication for global climate litigation; and Postdoctoral Researcher Kata Dozsa presented on Revolutionary rulings? Benchmarks in the European cases and the Inter-American Advisory Opinion Landmark Climate Cases at the ECHR and IACHR BSoG-VUB joint Webinar.
12.04.2024: Postdoctoral Researcher Kata Dozsa presented in person “Successes and Failures in Climate Change Litigation from a Child-Rights Perspective” at the Roundtable on “Advancing Children’s Rights through Climate Change Litigation,” King’s College London.
05.04.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented The Transformation of Transnational Environmental Conflicts into Litigation in the 21st Century: The Multiple Roles of Investors at the Workshop Organised by the ERC Curiae Virides Project and CIDER (Universidad de los Andes). Bogota – Colombia
05.04.2024 PhD Researcher Daniel Alejo delivered a presentation entitled “The Transformation of Ecological Disputes: A closer look at actors and their roles in Latin America and the Caribbean” during the Workshop “Transnational climate and ecological litigation: Exploring the transformative role of actors in shaping legal mechanisms” organized by the Curiae Virides poject and the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.
22.03.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was panelist in the panel Environmental challenges: sustainability, “green” mining and the ecological impacts of mining: at the Workshop Energy transition and raw material extraction: a dialogue between social scientists and geologists, organised by Université libre de Bruxelles (G-Time) & Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (GET).
21.03.2024 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was appointed as Deputy Director of the Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE).
30.01.2024 PhD Researcher Daniel Alejo delivered a presentation entitled “Ecocentric networks and stakeholders’ role in the transformation of ecological disputes”, during the Webinar “Eco-social crisis and judicial activism” organised by the Curiae Virides team.
30.01.2024 PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas delivered a presentation entitled “The Role of NGOs in Environmental Disputes involving Value Chain Due Diligence in the context of OECD National Contact Points”, in the context of the Webinar on Eco-social crisis and judicial activism organised by the Curiae Virides team.
2023
16.12.2023 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was guest speaker on Climate Justice & Litigation at the European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) Benelux Conference- Brussels.
6.12.2023 PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez organized and chaired the round table Crossing the Planetary Boundaries: A View from the Business and Human Rights Framework and Global Environmental Justice. First welcoming event of the International Inter- and Transdisciplinary Conference The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75: Rethinking and constructing its future together, organized by the University of Ghent, Human Rights Research Network.
23.11.2023: PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez was invited to a Panel on “Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive” at Risk Frontiers Benelux conference: the ESG: the new frontier of risk and insurance management | Antwerp| 23 November 2023.
14.11.2023: PI Liliana-Lizarazo Rodriguez was interviewed by members of the Young Environmental Research & Advocacy – YERA HUB (The Netherlands) on the amendment of the Environmental Crime Directive.
19.9.2023 PI Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez presented the ERC Curiae Virides project at the ELO workshop on ERC grants – Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
5.9.2023: PI L.Lizarazo-Rodriguez, A.Lopes Fabris and D.Montag presented the draft paper “Indigenous peoples as trustees of forests: implementing the framework of sustainable development from a bio-social-cultural perspective” at the Interfor Conference: Forests at the Crossroads of International Law, organised by the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.
07.07.2023 PI Lilana Lizarazo Rodriguez, PhDs Daniel Alejo and Joao de Freitas presented “Addressing transnational ecological challenges from below: a global perspective” at the 7th International Conference European University Institute – University of Portsmouth: Climate, Energy, and Environmental Justices and Transitions: rethinking global environmental law, Florence
16.06.2023 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented Building databases and mapping dynamic processes: Insights from the Curiae Virides database: Objectives, design, and methods to collect data on the transformation of ecological conflicts into lawsuits at the Expert Workshop: Opening the Black Box of Transnational Ecological Conflicts: Methods, Concepts and Transformations, organised by the ERC Curiae Virides Team at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
16.06.2023 Postdoc. Max Eriksson and Ph.D Milla Cieszkowsky presented Preliminary Findings: Collected data and how We Plan to use it at the Expert Workshop: Opening the Black Box of Transnational Ecological Conflicts: Methods, Concepts and Transformations, organised by the ERC Curiae Virides Team at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
16.06.2023 Postdoc. Max Eriksson chaired the session Expert discussion: key concerns when building databases at the Expert Workshop: Opening the Black Box of Transnational Ecological Conflicts: Methods, Concepts and Transformations, organised by the ERC Curiae Virides Team at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
16.06.2023 PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas presented a draft article entitled “OECD National Contact Points, environmental disputes and environmental due diligence: An empirical overview” the ERC Curiae Virides Expert Workshop: Opening the Black Box of Transnational Ecological Conflicts: Methods, Concepts and Transformations, organised by the ERC Curiae Virides Team. The presentation was discussed by Dr. Karin Buhmann (Centre for Law, Sustainability & Justice, University of Southern Denmark; and Copenhagen Business School).
16.06.2023 Ph.D Milla Cieszkowsky chaired the session Building databases and mapping dynamic processes at the Expert Workshop: Opening the Black Box of Transnational Ecological Conflicts: Methods, Concepts and Transformations, organised by the ERC Curiae Virides Team at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
15.06.2023 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented the Transnational ecological conflicts: conceptual and regulatory options that shape strategies to bring them before courts. The approach of the ERC Curiae Virides research project at the Expert Workshop: Opening the Black Box of Transnational Ecological Conflicts: Methods, Concepts and Transformations, organised by the ERC Curiae Virides Team at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
15.06.2023 PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas chaired an expert discussion entitled “Unpacking key concepts: transnational ecological conflicts and lawsuits presented the Transnational ecological conflicts: conceptual and regulatory options that shape strategies to bring them before courts.”. This session took place in the context of the the ERC Curiae Virides Expert Workshop: Opening the Black Box of Transnational Ecological Conflicts: Methods, Concepts and Transformations, organised by the ERC Curiae Virides Team at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
15.06.2023 Phd Daniel Alejo chaired the session The Complexity and multiple dimensions of transnational ecological conflicts at the Expert Workshop: Opening the Black Box of Transnational Ecological Conflicts: Methods, Concepts and Transformations, organised by the ERC Curiae Virides Team at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
05.06.2023 PI L. Lizarazo Rodriguez was interviewed for in 2 podcasts of the Amateur podcast for mature human rights concerns, of E. Toporova’s Capstone project within the framework of the Master of Laws in Human Rights program at the Central European University.
05.05.2023 PI L. Lizarazo Rodriguez delivered her final lecture: “Curiae Virides: Transforming Ecological Conflicts Into Lawsuits Do activist movements and courts fill ecological governance gaps and generate a waterfall effect on victims?” Universiteit Antwerpen, LLM, Module Sustainable Development and Global Justice.
03.05.2023 PI L. Lizarazo Rodriguez was discussant at the panel “The EU Laws and Policies on Value Chain Due Diligence: What are the Prospects for Addressing Global Challenges?” This panel was organized by the Curiae Virides research team, together with some members of the Ghent Institute for International and European Studies, Universiteit Ghent and UNU-CRIS, in the framework of the #EUIA23: Europe’s Pathways to (Dis)Engagement with the World held in Brussels, 3-5 May 2023.
03.05.2023 PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas presented a draft paper entitled “Prioritisation of Risk in Cross-Thematic Due Diligence” during the panel “The EU Laws and Policies on Value Chain Due Diligence: What are the Prospects for Addressing Global Challenges?”. This panel was organized by the Curiae Virides research team, together with some members of the Ghent Institute for International and European Studies, Universiteit Ghent and UNU-CRIS, in the framework of the #EUIA23: Europe’s Pathways to (Dis)Engagement with the World held in Brussels, 3-5 May 2023.
02.05.2023 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was jury of the PhD thesis “Socio-Technical Transformations for Decentralized Energy Systems: A Transition Study of Energy Communities”, defended by Maria Luisa Lode. Faculty of Social Sciences and Solvay Business School, Department of Mobility, Logistics, and Automotive Research Center. Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
26.04.2023 PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas presented a draft paper entitled “The legal operability of cross-thematic risk-based due diligence – reflections on mechanisms for prioritisation and hierarchisation of risks”. This paper was presented in the context of ECPR’s Joint Sessions of Workshops, Sciences Po, Toulouse. The paper was presented in a Workshop entitled “Towards a New Era of Environmental Risk Regulation in the EU? Analysing the EU Regulatory Approach in a Comparative Perspective”, and discussed by Ronit Justo-Hanani and Chiara Russo.
21.03.2023 PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas presented a draft paper entitled “OECD National Contact Points, Environmental Disputes and Environmental Due Diligence: Method, Concepts and Outlook”. This paper was presented in the context of a Research Colloquium organised by the BSoG. The event was chaired by Sebastian Oberthür and the invited discussant was Chiara Macchi (Wageningen University).
17.03.2023 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented the topic “EU Legislative Trends on the Role of States and Companies Related to Climate Issues”, at the Klimaat Bootcamp, 2023, organized by Mobilise, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
01.03.2023 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was interviewed as an expert on National Baseline Assessments on Business and Human Rights by the Danish Institute for Human Rights on An Overview of National Baseline Assessments on Business and Human Rights, (February, 2023). This report assesses NBAs from 31 countries.
15.02.2023 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was jury in the public defense of the PhD thesis: “Effectiveness of the Indigenous Justice of Jach’a Karangas in the Framework of the Egalitarian and Plural Justice of Bolivia” defended by Leonardo Villafuerte Philippsborn. Universiteit Antwerpen- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
19.01.2023 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was jury in the public defense of the PhD thesis: “Deep Seabed Mining in the Area: Investment Protection and the Common Heritage of Mankind” defended by Alberto Pecoraro, Universiteit Antwerpen.
2022
29.11.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez participated in a Panel Debate “How is ESG embedded in governance?” at the Awards for Best Belgian Sustainability Reports 2022 organized by The Belgian Institute of Registered Auditors (IBR-IRE). More information here
15.11.2022 PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas was discussant in a book panel on the forthcoming work by Dr Aleydis Nissen – “The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights” (Cambridge University Press). The event was organised at the BSoG.
4.10.2022 PhD Researcher Xavier Farré Fabregat delivered a presentation titled “The Right to a Healthy Environment: Towards another paradigm to protect the planet?” in the context of the IUCN WCEL 2022 Oslo International Environmental Law Conference. The content of the presentation was joinly elaborated with Pl Liliana Lizarazo Rodríguez.
28.9.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez chaired the jury of the PhD thesis: The relevance of transnational lawmaking by non-sovereign actors: A study of two cases of rulemaking on REDD+ defended by Ernesto Roessing Neto, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universite Libre de Bruxelles
20.9.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was Guest speaker on Business and Human Rights in the training for junior diplomats from Latin America and the Caribbean organised by the Cringendael Institute (The Hague).
15.9.2022 PhD Researcher Xavier Farré Fabregat delivered a presentation titled “Stakeholders’ Engagement in the transformation of Ecological Conflicts into Litigation”. This presentation was delivered in the context of the Research Colloquia organized by the Brussels School of Governance.
1.9.2022 – PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez delivered a guest lecture on Law and Development, SDGs and back to courts: Governance Gaps for vulnerable communities, Dev at the Workshop on Law, Development And Sustainability Centre for Law, Justice and Development, National Law University Delhi ]In association with the Research Group on Law and Development, University of Antwerp.
31.8.2022 – PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez delivered a guest lecture on Millennium Development Goals and 2030 Agenda: Parallels and Divergences (salient features of SDGs and Implementation Process) at the Workshop on Law, Development And Sustainability Centre for Law, Justice and Development, National Law University Delhi In association with the Research Group on Law and Development, University of Antwerp.
18.8.2022 – PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez delivered her annual guest lecture on Theories of law and development in the XXI Century: From Law and Development towards Law and Sustainable Development at the Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
23.6.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was jury of the PhD thesis, Relations of Duty in an Age of Rights: A study of the supply side of human rights in the context of maritime migration, defended by K. Gombeer at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universiteit Leiden.
16.6.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented the paper “The sustainability challenges for agri-food value chains” (coauthored with Marijke D’Haese (UGent)) at the Conference of the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS), hosted by the Marie Cederschiöld University, Stockholm School of Economics, Swedish Defence University, Stockholm University of the Arts, Södertörn University and University College Stockholm.
15.6.2022 PhD researcher João Teixeira de Freitas delivered a presentation entitled “Human Rights Due Diligence and Environmental Due Diligence – Friends or Foes?” in the context of the PhD workshop organised at the NILG Annual Conference on Business, Human Rights and the Living Environment at Wageningen University and research, Netherlands.
7.6.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez , together with Boris Verbrugge (HIVA-KUL) presented Gaps in the Belgian Business & Human Rights Framework and presentation of stakeholder contributions for the 2nd Belgian NAP – at the event Business & Human Rights in Practice: Inspiration for Belgian Stakeholders organized by the Federal Institute for Sustainable Development.
2.6.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was jury of the PhD thesis, The role of international (quasi-)judicial mechanisms in ensuring reparation for arbitrary displacement, defended by Debora Casalin at the University of Antwerp, Faculty of Law.
1.6.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez participated in the workshop on Business and Human Rights organised by Flanders Investment and Trade and Cifal Flanders. You find more information here
19.5.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez participated on the Workshop organised by DEVE (European Parliament) on Tackling environmental criminality in developing countries. She presented the EU policy coherence regarding victims of transnational environmental crimes. You can see the programme here.
17.05.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez delivered the ERC Inaugural Lecture for the project Curiae Virides. Liliana presented the project and the team in an event which took place in a physical format in Brussels. This event was organised by the Vice-Rector of Research and the European Liaison Office of the VUB.
12.05.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez and PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas presented a draft paper entitled ‘The EU’s approach to extraterritorial adverse impacts on ecosystems’. The presentation took place in the context of the Interdisciplinary conference on European Advanced Studies (IDEAS) organised by the Institut d’études européennes of the ULB, in collaboration with the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (IES-VUB) and the Politics and International Studies Department at the University of Warwick (PaIS-UoW).
29.03.2022 PhD Researcher Xavier Farré Fabregat chaired the webinar on The multiple faces of ecocide as a new crime against humanity: challenges and opportunities for states and companies organised by the Curiae Virides Research Team and End Ecocide Belgium.
29.03.2021 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented the topic “Conceptualizing the roots of ecocide: Anthropocentric, biocultural and ecocentric views on the protection of ecosystems” at the webinar on The multiple faces of ecocide as a new crime against humanity: challenges and opportunities for states and companies organised by the Curiae Virides Research Team and End Ecocide Belgium.
18.3.2022 – PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez delivered her annual guest lecture on Regional Protection of Human Rights at the Master in Public Policy and Human Development (University of Maastricht). More info about the topic? Liliana.Lizarazo.Rodriguez@Vub.be
8.3.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez participated in an ELO session on Horizon Europe at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel d the gender dimension in research. The session sought to enhance know-how and clarity on what is the gender dimension of research, how to integrate and make relevant use of this award criteria in your research project and to identify the aspects of gender requests in preparing a research project proposal.
24.02.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was guest speaker at the European Master on Law and Economics at the University of Ghent. The presentation was about the transformation of law and economic development into law and sustainable development.
21.02.2022 PhD Researcher Xavier Farré Fabregat delivered an introductory presentation at the webinar Forest Fires in Mediterranean Europe: Building Up to the Courts? organised by the Curiae Virides team.
27.01.2022 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented the paper Human Rights and Climate Change: Modern Anthropocentric Dutch Courts vs Neo-constitutional (Postmodern Ecocentric) Colombian Courts at the conference Beyond Anthropocentric Interests and Values? Human Rights and Climate Change funded by the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Leiden University Initiative
2021
21.12.2021 PhD Researcher João Teixeira de Freitas delivered a presentation entitled – “Due Diligence and Transnational Ecological Conflicts – A conceptual framework”. This presentation was delivered in the context of the Research Colloquia organised at the Brussels School of Governance.
21.10.2021 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez delivered a guest lecture on Global Governance of Ecological Conflicts in the course Globalization, International Law & Sustainable Development from the LLM of International and European Law of the Brussels School of Governance.
20.10.2021 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez delivered a guest lecture on Global Governance of Corporate Accountability in the course Globalization, International Law & Sustainable Development from the LLM of International and European Law of the Brussels School of Governance.
14.10.2021 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented the topic : The Role of the state and companies in protecting and respecting water access rights: comparing Nile and Congo basin cases, at the webinar Water Rights and Water Fights: Transboundary Water Governance in Africa, organised by the Curiae virides teams in collaboration with UNU-CRIS.
8.10.2021 PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez participated in the Workshop on the GNHRE Principles for the Implementation of Escazú organized by Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment.
19.8.2021 – PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodríguez delivered a guest lecture on Theories of law and development in the XXI Century: From the right to development towards multidimensional sustainable development, organized by the Center for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
4.8.2021 – Afaf Rahim chaired a parallel session at the African Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AFAERE) Virtual Inaugural Conference.
22.6.2021 – PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodríguez presented on the 8th Economic Analysis of Litigation Workshop a preliminary draft on Strategic litigation, public interest litigation and claiming rights for ecosystems: who are the choice architects of this phenomenon?.
28.5.2021 – PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez delivered a guest lecture on Business and Human Rights in Belgium in the framework of the seminar Empresas y Derehos humanos organized by the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.
27.5.2021 – João Teixeira de Freitas delivered a presentation at the VUB PhD Day entitled ‘Transnational Ecological Conflicts, Courts and the Sustainable Development Goals’. The presentation covered an introduction to the Curia Virides research project. It then provided an overview of the connections between law and the SGDs, along with considerations concerning the role of law and courts in advancing sustainable development goals.
25.5.2021 – PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez delivered a guest lecture on Corporate responsibility to protect human rights and the environment at the Thomas More of applied sciences university (Belgium). More info about the topic? Liliana.Lizarazo.Rodriguez@Vub.be
4.5.2021 – PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented the topic: “Can judges nudge national governments to protect the forest?: at the webinar Protecting the Amazon Region: Governance Gaps, organised by the Curiae Virides team in collaboration with UNU-CRIS.
27.4.2021 – PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez moderated the Conference on Protected Areas: Human right perspectives on environmental degradation and the rights of indigenous people , organized by Vesalius College (BSoG).
22.4.2021 – PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez was external jury of the PhD defense on CSR in mining activities in Peru, at the Westminster University (Faculty of Law).
18.3.2021 – Greening human rights: the role of ecocentric courts: PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez presented the main topics addressed by the research project Curiae Virides. The session was chaired by Doreen Montag. The event was organized by the Queen Mary University of London (The Blizard Institute) and The Queen Mary Latin America Network (QMLAN).
11.3.2021 – PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez delivered her annual guest lecture on Regional Protection of Human Rights at the Master in Public Policy and Human Development (University of Maastricht). More info about the topic? Liliana.Lizarazo.Rodriguez@Vub.be