The planet and its inhabitants face critical threats – including climate change, collapse of biodiversity, reverses in progress on global poverty and persistent inequality. How can international and national laws address these threats? What insights do we have about the conditions that lead to their enactment and implementation?
This event brings together leading scholars, practitioners, campaigners and students to explore the rapidly shifting legal landscape governing protest rights in the UK.
📅 18 June 2026, 18:00 - 22:00 This is a free event, first come - first served. Tickets available here. Please note that submitting this form is not a confirmation of attendance to this event. We will confirm your place in due course. That’s a wrap! 🎉 Celebrate the end of your exams and the …
This talk will discuss cover reform proposals, including wealth taxes, progressive consumption taxes, and the creation of sovereign wealth funds.
Speaker: Joseph Bankman
The Weald Action Group - campaigners behind the landmark Supreme Court 2024 Finch judgment helped establish that fossil fuel projects must account for their full climate impacts at the planning stage, strengthening legal requirements and environmental scrutiny. Building on that success, the group is continuing work on emissions accountability, questioning how UK policy and regulation currently addresses methane from the operational stage at onshore sites.
