Events
Forthcoming Events
Ocupar, Resistir, Produzir
Weds 1st April 5.30pm
Room 313, Law Department, Queen Mary University of London E1 4NS
Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, the MST organise to resist corporate landgrabs. A panel discussion with Brazilian lawyer Felipe de Araújo Chersoni, Jessica Sklair and David Whyte.
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Britain’s Dirtiest Investors
May 5th 2026 5pm
We launch a new report that reaches behind the corporate veil to expose the biggest British investors in polluting companies.
Time and place to follow.
Britain’s Political Prisoners
May 26th 2026 7pm
We launch a new report that for the first time presents a comprehensive analysis of all those who have been incarcerated as a result of climate and Palestine solidarity protests.
Time and place to follow.
Film showing and discussion
May 27th 2026 7pm
Panel discusson with Angela Sherwood, Jeremy Corbyn, Paddy Friend, Rosa Hicks and film Director Liz Smith
Past Events
Peace and Justice Project
Saturday 20th September and Sunday 21st September 2025.
Queen Mary University of London Whitechapel Campus.
We co-hosted the annual International Conference of the Peace & Justice Project for the second year running.
Speakers included: Francesca Albanese, Mairéad Farrell, Ilan Pappé, Shahd Hammouri, Carolina Alves, Ndongo Samba Sylla, Stephanie A Kelton, Sara Nelson, Daniel Kostzer, Jason Hickel, David Whyte, Mohammed Usrof, Danièle Obono, James Schneider, Peter Oborne, Amy Goodman, Ashira Darwish and Emre Kazim.
The Role of the British Criminal Justice System in Climate Destruction
Friday 12th September 2025.
Queen Mary University of London Lincoln’s Inn Fields Campus.
We co-hosted a workshop for criminologists and socio-legal scholars working on themes of criminalisation and protest in contemporary Britain.
Decentering Collective Self-Legislation for the Anthroposcene
Tuesday 13th May, 4pm-5pm.
Queen Mary University of London Mile End Campus.
We co-hosted this seminar with Hans Lindahl, alongside the Forum on Decentering the Human.
Profits from Ecological
Destruction in West Papua
Wednesday 19th February, 11:30am – 2pm.
We orgainsed ths walking tour through the heart of the City of London, followed by a public meeting, as part of QMUL Climate Action week
Parliamentary Meeting on West Papua
Tuesday 26th November.
Portcullis House, Westminster
We co-hosted this meeting with the All Party Parliamentary Group for West Papua to discuss the Permanent People’s Tribunal judgement.
Film: The Fight for Haiti
Tuesday 19th November.
BLOC Theatre, Queen Mary University of London Mile End Campus
We co-hosted this free showing and Q and A with Director Etant Dupain, chaired by Angela Sherwood.
The film explores the mass movement that rose up to demand justice for government corruption and violence for the PetroCaribe scandal in Haiti.
See more information and watch film trailers here.
Human Rights Council Meeting on West Papua PPT
Tuesday 1st October 2024
Room XXV, Palais des Nations, Geneva
We co-hosted this side meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council where a member of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal read out the Tribunal’s judgement for the first time. The event also saw members of West Papuan civil society organisations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Monitor and the World Council of Churches express different perspectives.
Peace & Justice Project International Conference 2024
Saturday 14th September 2024
Queen Mary University of London Whitechapel Campus
We co-hosted the second annual International Conference of the Peace & Justice Project, featuring panels on the issues we face as a planet and speakers from world politics.
Speakers included: Jeremy Corbyn, Andrew Feinstein, Lindsey German, Penny Green Vijay Prashad, Binalakshmi Nepram, Sara Nelson, Baker Khundakji, Fran Heathcote, Patricia Pino, Daniele Obono, Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, Vijay Prashad, Tori Tsui, David Whyte, Pamela Fitzpatrick and Erkan Baş.
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on West Papua
Thursday 27th June – Saturday 29th June 2024
Queen Mary University of London Mile End Campus
We initiated and hosted three days of Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal hearings on state and environmental violence in West Papua.
Read the indictment: in English; or in Indonesian.
Read the judgement issued by the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on 1st October 2024 here.
Read BBC Indonesia report on the hearings here; English transaltion here.
Read statement by the Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination and Liberation here.
Read Amnesty International’s response to the hearings and the judges’ statement here.
Supported by:
No More Hot Air!
Monday April 15th 2024
Caird Hall, Dundee
This meeting brought together key figures in the Scottish environmental and trade union movements to discuss how workers can fight for climate justice and secure a transition to a sustainable economy.
Organised in partnership with:
Climate of Injustice: What next for the law’s silencing of protest and dissent?
Friday 12th April 2024
Queen Mary University of London Lincoln’s Inn Fields Campus, London WC2A 3JB
This conference discussed the attacks on the right to protest by the government and the legal system and heard from a number of people who’ve been jailed for environmental protests alongside prominent lawyers and Michel Forst, the Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders.
Read CCCCJ member Natasha Walters’ article in the Observer here.
Read post-conference report in The Ecologist here.
The Politics of Ecocide
Wednesday 8th November 2023
Queen Mary University of London Mile End Campus
This event explored current proposals and wider possibilities for reforming the law to take account of ‘ecocide’. It explored how those proposals might be broadened to seek wider social transformations.
Speakers: Robert Knox, University of Liverpool; Ignasi Bernat, University of Barcelona; Richard Falk, QMUL and Princeton University; Mireia Vehi, outgoing CUP member of the Spanish Parliament; Laure Vega, incoming CUP member of the Spanish Parliament; and David Whyte, QMUL.
Funded by The Queen Mary University of London Impact Fund
Organised in partnership with:
Working for Climate Justice: a free one day conference
Friday 27th October, 2023.
Toynbee Hall, London
This conference on ‘green bargaining’ strategies brought togetther trade union organisers, academics and campaigners.
Industrial production systems have created climate change. Employers and their organisations continue to delay and put obstcles in the way of taking the necessary action. Our starting point is that workers and their trade unions must develop a collective bargaining approach to climate change and environmental degradation. A collective response from trade unions will be decisive in taking the action necessary to mitigate climate change.
Read coverage of the event in Jacobin and Labour Research.
Speakers: Pete Cannell, North Sea Transition/Scot.E3, Linda Clarke, University of Westminster, Ben Crawford, London School of Economics, Rosemary Harris, Platform, Wolfgang Kuchler, Campaign Against Climate Change, Sam Mason, PCS, Chris McLachlan, QMUL, Jake Molloy, RMT, John Moloney, PCS, Georgia Montague-Nelson, Global Labour Institute, Janet Newsham, Hazards and TUCAN, Declan Owens, Greener Jobs Alliance, Marie Petersmann, London School of Economics, Chris Saltmarsh, Labour for a Green New Deal, Andrew Watterson, University of Stirling, Sarah Wooley, BFAWU, Vicky Blake and Peter Wood, UCU, John Cooper, Unite and Sam Perry, TUC Yorks and Humber, Tyrone Scott, War on Want and David Whyte, QMUL.
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Climate Resistance and Law
Friday 19th May 2023
Queen Mary University of London Lincoln’s Inn Fields Campus
Panel discussion with Morag Livingstone author of Charged, Paul Powlesland and Matt Hutchings of Lawyers Are Responsible.
This public meeting heard speakers talking about how we can act in solidarity with climate defenders taking direct action. The discussion was followed by a free screening of the award-winning film ‘Finite’and Q&A with film director Rich Felgate.
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Criminalising Climate Defenders
Friday 31st March 2023
Queen Mary University of London Mile End Campus
This one day conference brought toogther key commentators and activists to discuss the police clampdown against environemntal defenders in the UK. Organisations represented at the conference included: Nanas Against Fracking, Extinction Rebellion, STOP HS2 Campaign, Choked Up, Just Stop Oil, Palestine Action, Healing Justice London, War on Want, Breathe Community Organising for Climate Justice and the Sunrise Project.
Following the conference, we organised a letter in the Times expressing solidarity with climate protestors criminalised by the state. The letter was signed by 65 British academics working in the field of criminology, penology and policing.
Resisting Ecocide in West Papua
Friday 9th September 2022
Queen Mary University of London Lincoln’s Inn Fields Campus
This free one day conference gave a platform to activists, journalists and academics involved in the struggle against environmental destruction in West Papua. Speakers included Benny Wenda, Fadjar Schouten-Korwa and Raki Ap, and the conference was live streamed to an international audience, including a number of showings in West Papua.
What is the Point of COP 27?
Friday 21st October 2022
Online panel discussion with Vandana Shiva, Hilal Elver and Walden Bello.
This panel raised a number of critical reflections on the Conference of the Parties meetings held annually to review the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. The panel set out a range of Global South perspectives on the structure of the meetings and the way that key vioices are excluded before documenting the history of COP failures, with an extended discussion of the inability to reach agreement on decisive action from the 2009 Copenhagen COP onwards.
The Value of Climate Justice
Thursday September 22nd 2022
Online event
This event featured Adrienne Buller in conversation with Ann Pettifor to discuss the publication of her important book on climate change and capitalism The Value of a Whale.
Debating Ecocide Law: a seminar series
This series of events discussed the concept of ecocide and the Stop Ecocide proposals for a new law of ecocide. The events lined up some well known and established voices alongside some emerging new voices on the subject.
Tuesday June 7th 2022 – The Politics of Ecocide with Richard Falk, Jojo Mehta, Damien Short, Seema Joshi and Rob Knox.
Tuesday June 21st – Rethinking Ecocide, with Hannah Meszaros Martin, Marília de Nardin Budó, Tameka Samuels-Jones, Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa and Jose Atiles.
Thursday October 6th 2022 – Ecocide as State Crime with Richard Falk and Steven Donsinger.
