Author: Legal Voices for the Future
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BHP’s Liability in the Mariana Dam Disaster: Court Decision Explained
By Riley Forson – Legal Voices for the Future Stewardship Committee In November 2025, the English High Court handed down the first stage judgment in the Mariana dispute[1]. The first stage hearing dealt with the question of liability of the UK domiciled parent company alleged to be liable for the worst environmental catastrophe in Brazilian…
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🐝Why (environmental) lawyers should love wasps 🐝
By Catríona Campbell, LVF Stewardship Committee Member LVF’s inaugural book club For LVF’s inaugural book club in September, we explored books centred on insects, a group often overlooked despite their crucial role in maintaining ecosystems and their growing vulnerability to climate change (the list of books is here, and you can find details of our next…
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LVF Community Book Club – Rivers
We are excited to launch the second series of our Community Book Club! 📖 As before, we are sharing a list, rather than a single book, on the theme so that we can come together to have a diverse and insightful discussion on the topic, so members can have freedom of choice over the book…
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November 2025 Newsletter
Dear Members Welcome to LVF’s November newsletter! The Great Migration is the world’s largest movement of mammals with nearly 2 million animals moving in a circular pattern across Kenya and Tanzania. They all move with the rains, adapting to every challenge the land brings. Nature teaches us that resilience is not about resisting change, but…
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October 2025 Newsletter
Dear Members Welcome to LVF’s October newsletter! As the season shifts from summer to autumn we encourage our members to be reflective and consider what they can do to bring about positive change. In this edition we share part one of our overview of Legal Careers for a Sustainable Future, where we consider careers for…
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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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