The 2017 Linacre Lecture will be given by Professor John Knox, on Tuesday 20th June 2017 at 17:30 in the Tanner Room. Professor Knox’s lecture is entitled “Global Threats to Environmental Human Rights Defenders".
Professor Knox is the Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law at Wake Forest University and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights and the environment. His work has included human rights obligations of corporations, the application of human rights law to climate change, citizen suits in international environmental law, and the extraterritorial application of U.S. law.