Climate Litigation: Systemic Change Through Strategic Use of the Law - Alice Garton

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Brodies LLP in partnership with Edinburgh Law School present

Climate Litigation: Systemic Change Through Strategic Use of the Law

Alice Garton
Legal Director for the Foundation for International Law for the Environment (FILE)

About the Speaker:
FILE seeks to bring transformative legal strategies to scale in order to combat the climate and ecological emergencies.
Previously Alice lead the Climate Programme at Europe’s leading environmental law charity, ClientEarth. The programme uses legal advocacy, advice and litigation to accelerate government policies and corporate investment strategies that are consistent with a net zero emissions future. In addition to her role at ClientEarth, Alice is also co-investigator for the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative at the University of Oxford’s Smith School, and on the Advisory Committees for UK based NGO Influence Map, Positive Investment Cambridge, and campaign coalition Europe Beyond Coal.
Prior to joining ClientEarth, Alice worked for 15 years as a lawyer in large defence law firms (Clayton Utz, Olswang, Lovells) acting for company directors in commercial litigation and insolvency disputes, and then as Senior Legal Counsel at Brookfield in London. In parallel to her litigation practice, Alice developed and implemented CSR initiatives at Clayton Utz and Brookfield. At Brookfield, she advised Brookfield Asset Management on the UK and EU climate change regulatory regimes relevant to UK subsidiaries, and worked with the Brookfield Multiplex board of directors in identifying strategic business opportunities in the green economy.
Alice has researched and written about various issues in international environmental law through her work at Chatham House in 2006 and in her other roles. Alice graduated with first class honours in both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies. She has a double degree in Law and Politics from Charles Darwin University (in Australia) and a Masters of Environmental Law and Policy from University College London. 

 

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