Author: Legal Voices for the Future
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The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change
About the Author: Ellie Stringer is a paralegal at Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP and a First-Class Law graduate from Newcastle University. Ellie has experience in litigation support, pro bono legal practice, and environmental justice advocacy, ranging from grassroots campaigning with Greenpeace to supporting climate displacement recovery efforts with Think Pacific in Fiji. (i) Introduction The…
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September 2025 Newsletter
Dear LVF Members Welcome to LVF’s September newsletter – we hope you’ve had a lovely summer and didn’t miss us too much over the August break! This edition of Legal Voices for the Future’s the newsletter includes: See you next month, LVF Education September knowledge session What do you know about environmental NGOs? Recent research…
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The New Activist Frontline?
About the Author: Alice Stephens graduated with a degree in Political Science from the University of Cambridge in 2023, the PGDL programme at BPP in 2025, and is currently preparing to undertake the SQE, sponsored by Macfarlanes. As anti-protest legislation intensifies, many are turning to climate litigation as a new form of activism. However, recent…
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Holding Fossil Fuel Corporations & Executives Accountable…
About the author: J Spooner works at the intersection of law, research and storytelling – helping organisations navigate complexity and communicate clearly to advance human rights, climate justice and positive systemic change. PROFIT OR CRIME SCENE? Could profits from human rights hot zones be treated as criminal property under UK law? A legal thought experiment. …
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July 2025 Newsletter
Dear LVF Members Welcome to Legal Voices for the Future’s July newsletter! This edition includes: We are taking a break for the rest of the summer, so we wanted to say thank you for your support over the first half of 2025. We will be back in September for a new schedule of sessions and events;…
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June 2025 Newsletter
Dear LVF Members Welcome to Legal Voices for the Future’s June newsletter! This edition includes: A friend of LVF said “If not now, then when? If not me, then who?”. While we at LVF know that the climate and biodiversity crises can feel overwhelming at times, we are reminded of this quote and our collective community…
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LVF Member Q&A: Youth Engagement at the Climate Change COP
Now that we’re in the run-up COP30 in Brazil in November, we interviewed our member Mathilda Lorkin about her experience at COP29 in Baku last year – have a read of her key takeaways below! 1. Please could you tell us about yourself and your role on the ground at COP29? Sure – my name…
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Legal Voices for the Future at Wakelyns Agroforestry
Reflections from Harriet Hall, co-chair of the LVF Stewardship Committee On 10-11 May 2025, a group of 30 LVF members travelled to Wakelyns Agroforestry in Suffolk, for our first LVF field trip, generously hosted by David Wolfe KC and Amanda Illing. Wakelyns is a pioneering 22.5 hectare farm that combines agroforestry, food, community, research and environmental…
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May 2025 Newsletter
Dear Members Welcome to LVF’s May newsletter! This edition of Legal Voices for the Future’s newsletter includes: As we focus on sharing knowledge and increasing our education on the topics of climate and biodiversity in this newsletter, we were reminded of G.K Chesteron’s quote: “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes…
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Reflections on soil
By Carol Yuen, LVF Stewardship Committee Member and LLM in Environmental Law and Policy candidate at UCL, 2024/25 SOIL: The World at Our Feet, held at Somerset House, was an exhibition to unearth soil’s vital role in our planet’s future. LVF members visited together on 30 March 2025. The exhibition was an excellent combination of…
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