On April 13, María Ximena González Serrano offered a presentation about her work and reflections about the Atrato river case. Ximena worked with the local communities and social organizations in Chocó between 2010 and 2018, and she supported the documentation and litigation process in defence of the Atrato River. She was co-founder and co-director of …
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Rahul Ranjan, Postdoc at OsloMet and researcher of the Riverine Rights project, has published his reflections on mourning after the flood disaster in Uttarakhand last month.
On February 23, Dr. Anindita Pujari gave a lecture titled: Locating Riverine Personality Judgement in Indian Law at a Riverine Rights digital seminar. Dr. Anindita Pujari is an advocate of the Supreme Court of India and holds a PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has been involved in a number of supreme court landmark …
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One of the project participants of the Riverine rights project, Elizabeth Macpherson has received an award for her book ‘Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation: Lessons from Comparative Experience’ (CUP 2019). The book has been awarded the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand 2020 prize for most outstanding contribution to the …
In the study of the topic “Perceptions of Environment”, two speakers will be invited every month in the Spring Semester 2021 at the seminar. The first chapter of the seminar is focused on India but not limited to it. Speakers are early career graduates, Postdocs and final stage PhD students, who are willing to present …
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Last week, the Riverine Rights team held its kickoff workshop. It included sessions on the individual country cases, on interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, and allowed for discussions and planning of approaches, case studies and fieldwork. The workshop was originally planned to be held in New Zealand, but the Corona virus made that impossible. Instead, the meeting …
‘The Symposium Collection on Indigenous Water Rights in Comparative Law’ compiled by Riverine Rights researcher Elizabeth Macpherson has now been published in Transnational Environmental Law. Here is the link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transnational-environmental-law/latest-issue
Interview with project leader Axel Borchgrevink on oslomet.no https://www.oslomet.no/en/research/featured-research/should-rivers-granted-same-rights-humans
Our NZ country lead, Dr Elizabeth Macpherson, gave the presentation ‘A New Zealand Perspective on an Ecological Constitution and the Rights of Nature in Chile’ as part of a webinar arranged by environmental NGO FIMA and the University of Chile on the need for better protection of environmental/natures rights in Chile’s constitutional reform process. You …
Dr. Rahul Ranjan has been hired as a post-doctoral fellow on the project. Rahul is a political anthropologist from India, who recently completed his PhD at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in March this year in a record time of three years. His first day of work for the project – and …
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