Transnational Environmental Law and Grass-Root Initiatives: The Case of the Latin American Water Tribunal

Giupponi, Belén Olmos

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“…191-209, November 2019 Tribunal. 8 The latter tribunal has been well studied and is considered as having succeeded in constituting particularly rich spaces for the development of civil justice (Giupponi 2016;Maganda 2009). The International Monsanto Tribunal is yet another example of the growing interest environmental organizations have for opinion tribunals.…”

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“…It prevented the [p.202] pp. 191-209, November 2019 mediation (contrary, for example, to certain sessions of the Latin-American Water Tribunal [Giupponi 2016]) and created a somewhat ambiguous effect on its legitimacy. The lack of representation of defense arguments prevented the accusations prepared by the organizers and voiced by the witnesses from being cross-examined and challenged.…”

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Staging International Environmental Justice: The International Monsanto Tribunal

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Opinions tribunals dealing with environmental issues have multiplied over the last several years as a consequence of the rise of international environmental law and its promo-tion by international networks. Drawing on an ethnographic investigation of one of those tribunals-the International Monsanto Tribunal-this article reflects on the many objec-tives they often pursue: strengthening political positions, publicizing environmental and health social struggles, and promoting legal theories. In our case, we show that articulat-ing those objectives involved intense work to stage the tribunal's legitimacy. We analyze this work and how it was put to the test during and after the sessions of the tribunal. Our article broadly suggests that environmental opinion tribunals are political arenas where rights and identities are not only asserted but also negotiated and legitimized. [opinion tribunal, International Monsanto Tribunal, environment, ecocide, law] In October 2016, the International Monsanto Tribunal took place in The Hague. This event staged and mediatized a trial to assess allegations made against the multinational Monsanto, a firm whose

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“…Belén Olmos Giupponi's article, 'Transnational Environmental Law and Grass-Root Initiatives: The Case of the Latin American Water Tribunal', 24 also focuses on Latin America. It presents a fascinating and penetrating examination of the Latin American Water Tribunal (LAWT or Tribunal).…”

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The Emergence of New Rights and New Modes of Adjudication in Transnational Environmental Law

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Carlarne³

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The year 2015 ended on a euphoric note for many in the environmental law community. The climate negotiations in Paris (France) in late November and December, proceeding in the face of tragic terrorist attacks in that city only weeks before, yielded an historic agreement that may well serve as the international baseline for decades to come. 1 We suspect that some will regard the 21 st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP-21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 2 as a belated victory for old-style international law. Yet the final agreement is far from old-style, for the parties relinquished the insistence, so manifestly present at COP-20 in Copenhagen (Denmark), on binding emissions reduction targets and rigorous enforcement mechanisms. What COP-21 has produced instead is scaffolding upon which states must supply nationally determined contributions (NDCs), established in a transparent, multilevel fashion. 3 The Paris Agreement thus represents a different and more optimistic way forward, and one that relies deeply on the augmentation of alternative approaches to environmental governance. Discussions concerning precisely these alternative approaches have filled the pages of this journal during its formative years. On that note, we gratefully pause to recognize that 2016 is TEL's fifth anniversary year. Since its launch TEL has published rigorous and challenging pieces on topics ranging from climate change adaptation law and regulatory convergence in nanotechnology governance to the legality of a meat carbon tax. 4 That TEL fills an important niche in environmental

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Transnational Environmental Law and Grass-Root Initiatives: The Case of the Latin American Water Tribunal

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Staging International Environmental Justice: The International Monsanto Tribunal

Staging International Environmental Justice: The International Monsanto Tribunal

The Emergence of New Rights and New Modes of Adjudication in Transnational Environmental Law

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