The Stop Ecocide movement is inspired by years of work and research by visionary lawyer, Polly Higgins, who saw that creating an international crime of ecocide would be the most powerful and effective means of protecting the Earth. The movement continues to be supported, promoted and energised by far-sighted, passionate lawyers across the world.

Legal Definition of Ecocide

In June 2021, the Independent Expert Panel, convened by our charitable arm, the Stop Ecocide Foundation concluded its groundbreaking drafting work and a proposed consensus definition of ecocide was announced.

Read the Commentary and Core Text.

Our sister website EcocideLaw.com is a comprehensive resource hub providing a regularly updated collection of adademic and legal material relating to “ecocide” law, including research articles, publications and related topics.

Coming Soon: Defending Tomorrow

Through conversations with world-class legal experts, topics related and relevant to the environmental legal field will be discussed, in particular the global campaign for the recognition of Ecocide as a crime in the Rome Statute.

Presented by: Rodrigo Lledó and Victor Rujano.

Produced by SEI Lawyers Network.

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The more the legal world gets behind establishing ecocide crime, the more powerful the momentum to do so will become.

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Some of the lawyers supporting ecocide law:

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Ukpeme Okon (Nigeria/US)

Peace Ambassador, Barrister, Author, Musician.

Darryl Robinson (Ireland)

Professor, Queen's University, Gold Medalist at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law and Jerome Lipper Award winner.

Jan van de Venis (Netherlands)

Stop Ecocide International Advisory Board
Human Rights and Rights of Nature Lawyer.

Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh (Netherlands and Fiji)

Stop Ecocide International Advisory Board
Asst Law Professor / Senior Lecturer, Universities of Leiden / South Pacific.

James Gondi (Kenya)

Africa High Level Coordinator, Stop Ecocide International
Human rights and democratic governance lawyer.

Michael Mansfield KC (UK)

Barrister and head of chambers at Nexus Chambers.

Alex Whiting (US)

Independent Expert Panel
Former International Criminal Court prosecutions coordinator; Professor, Harvard Law School.

Tuiloma Neroni Slade (Samoa)

Independent Expert Panel
Former ICC judge.

Charles C Jalloh (Sierra Leone)

Independent Expert Panel
Professor, Florida International University/UN International Law Commission.

Syeda Rizwana Hasan (Bangladesh)

Independent Expert Panel
Director, Bangladesh Environmental Law Association.

Christina Voigt (Norway)

Independent Expert Panel
University of Oslo.

Valérie Cabanes (France)

Independent Expert Panel
International jurist and human rights expert.

Richard Rogers (UK)

Deputy Chair, Independent Expert Panel
Partner, Global Diligence; Executive Director, Climate Counsel.

Kate Mackintosh (US/UK)

Deputy Chair, Independent Expert Panel
Executive Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA School of Law.

Dior Fall Sow (Senegal)

Co-Chair, Independent Expert Panel
UN jurist and former prosecutor.

Philippe Sands KC (UK)

Co-Chair, Independent Expert Panel
University College London / Matrix Chambers; author, East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.

Adadier Perdomo (Colombia)

Litigator with extensive experience in civil, administrative, constitutional, police, mining and environmental law.

Paulo Busse (Brasil)

Criminal, environmental and human rights lawyer. Climate Counsel Getulio Vargas Foundation. Co-director of the Environmental and Climate Crisis Practice Group of the Global Diligence Alliance.

Pablo Fajardo (Ecuador)

Environmental activist and lawyer, winner of the Goldman Prize and the CNN Hero Award. Lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the famous Chevron-Texaco case.

Julio Prieto (Ecuador)

Lawyer specialising in Environmental Law, Indigenous Rights and Rights of Nature. United Nations Expert on Earth Jurisprudence for the Harmony with Nature Programme.

Víctor Rujano Bautista (Venezuela)

Lawyer defending the environment and indigenous peoples, director and founder of CIMAS (Culturas Indígenas y Medio Ambiente Sustentable) and promoter and co-director of Venezuela Sin Ecocidio.

Paula Alvarado (Argentina)

Lawyer specialising in International Human Rights Law and expert in Indigenous Peoples and International Cooperation. Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires. Member of the UN Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG).

Miguel Ángel Asturias (Argentina)

Director of the Association of Environmental and Climate Criminal Law Researchers (AIDPAC). Professor at the University of Belgrano. Official of the National Chamber of Criminal and Correctional Appeals of the Federal Capital. Author of a proposal for a law on the crime of ecocide in Argentina.

María Teresa Vicente Giménez (España)

Professor of Philosophy of Law and Director of the Chair of Human Rights and Rights of Nature at the University of Murcia. Promoter of the Popular Legislative Initiative to recognise the legal personality of the Mar Menor (2022). Medal of Honour for Volunteering of the Council of Europe.