
The primary goal of the workshop is to explore the potential for an integrative and collaborative approach between strategic litigants (civil society actors and the lawyers that represent them) and academics to enhance the potential for strategic litigation to achieve the social, economic, and environmental change that is sought by the litigants.
This workshop has two key ambitions. First, to investigate the possible relevance of an LPE approach for advancing strategic litigation claims. Second, to lay the foundations for the development of tools that can nurture at collaboration between academic research and civil society interventions, including the creation of a European network for knowledge exchange that can help to promote a more joined up approach to strategic litigation.
The workshop aspires to discuss the relevance of a focus on the constitutive (and thus on the distributive and power-conferring) role of law for advancing strategic litigation claims. What might a Law and Political Economy approach, and a focus on the constitutive role of law in particular, mean for strategic litigation initiatives? Perhaps the challenge that LPE scholarship presents to the traditional division between ‘private’ and ‘public’ - as descriptors of activity and as legal fields – could be mobilized to recharacterize the nature of actors and/or actions of corporations, financial institutions, and governments for the purposes of litigation? Could an illustration of how the constitutive role of law is relevant to the carrying out of harmful activities thereby implicate or trigger the legal responsibilities of a wider field of actors who could be pursued in the courts? Might a focus on constitutive role of law assist with the development of new argumentative patterns that could extend the reach of current laws to cover the actions of specific respondents and defendants?
List of Participants
Participants | University |
Anna Chadwick | Organiser, University of Glasgow |
Ioannis Kampourakis | Organiser, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Javier Solana | Organiser, University of Glasgow |
Valentina Arazov | Global Legal Action Network – GLAN |
Alessandra Arcuri | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Ruth Dukes | University of Glasgow |
Filippo Fantozzi | Climate Litigation Network |
Tomaso Ferrando | University of Antwerp |
Jeff Handmaker | ISS Hague and Public Interest Litigation Project |
Eleanor Kirk | University of Glasgow, Labour and Strategic Litigation Project |
Lydia de Leeuw | The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations – SOMO |
Alex Lombos | ClientEarth, Accountable Finance |
Paul Mougeolle | Notre Affair À Tous, Université Paris Nanterre |
Phillip Paiement | Tilburg University, TransLitigate: The Agency of Transnational Strategic Litigators in Global Environmental Governance |
Pablo Felmer Roa | Barcelona Bar Association |
Jamie Sawyer | ClientEarth, Accountable Finance |
David Scott | University of Glasgow |
Sanne Taekema | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Jasper Teulings | Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Director Strategic Litigation |
Vera Weghmann | Independent Workers of Great Britain Union and United Voices of the World |