{"id":12,"date":"2026-06-09T12:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:11:10","slug":"event-details","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/event-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Event details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/files\/2026\/06\/castle-students-400x600-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Group of people walking in the castle grounds\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/files\/2026\/06\/castle-students-400x600-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/files\/2026\/06\/castle-students-400x600-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The conference will take place at the historic venue of Lancaster Castle (5 minutes from Lancaster train station \u2014 Castle Hill, Lancaster, LA1 1YN, UK) on 17<sup>th<\/sup>-18<sup>th<\/sup> September 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The conference is hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/law\/\">Lancaster University Law School<\/a>\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/law\/research\/human-rights-and-global-vulnerabilities\/\">Human Rights and Global Vulnerabilities<\/a> research cluster and is kindly funded in part by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalscholars.ac.uk\/\">Society of Legal Scholars<\/a> (SLS).<\/p>\n<p>The conference is organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/humanities-arts-and-social-sciences\/people\/jeremy-letwin\">Jeremy Letwin<\/a> (Lancaster) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/law\/people\/james-summers\">James Summers<\/a> (Lancaster). The steering group consists of Corina Heri (VUB), Stefan Theil (Cambridge) and Azadeh Chalabi (Liverpool). The PGR Roundtable is organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/law\/people\/camilo-cornejo-martinez\">Camilo Cornejo<\/a> (Lancaster) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/humanities-arts-and-social-sciences\/people\/katie-neaves\">Katie Neaves<\/a> (Lancaster).<\/p>\n<p>The conference will feature a keynote from Jessica Simor KC, a leading environmental and human rights barrister (and lead counsel for the applicants in <em>KlimaSeniorinnen<\/em>).<\/p>\n<h2>Day 1 -17th September<\/h2>\n<p>11:15 \u2013 11:45 Coffee and introductions<br \/>\n11:45 \u2013 13:15 Panel 1<br \/>\n13:15 \u2013 14:15 Lunch<br \/>\n14:15 \u2013 15:45 Panel 2<br \/>\n15:45 \u2013 16:00 Break<br \/>\n16:00 \u2013 17:45 Panel 3<br \/>\nConference dinner<\/p>\n<h2>Day 2 \u2013 18th September<\/h2>\n<p>08:15 \u2013 08:45 Coffee<br \/>\n08:45 \u2013 10:00 Keynote<br \/>\n10:00 \u2013 10:15 Break<br \/>\n10:15 \u2013 11:45 Panel 4<br \/>\n11:45 \u2013 12:00 Break<br \/>\n12:00 \u2013 13:30 Panel 5<br \/>\n13:30 \u2013 14:30 Lunch<br \/>\n14:30 \u2013 17:00 PGR Roundtable<\/p>\n<p>N.b. to enable people coming from within the UK to travel to and from Lancaster, on day 1 the conference will start late, and on day 2 it will start early and finish early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conference will take place at the historic venue of Lancaster Castle (5 minutes from Lancaster train station \u2014 Castle Hill, Lancaster, LA1 1YN, UK) on 17th-18th September 2026. The conference is hosted by Lancaster University Law School\u2019s new Human Rights and Global Vulnerabilities research cluster and is kindly funded in part by the Society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"nosidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/theorising-the-new-age-of-environmental-human-rights-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}