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Climate Change in the International Courts – Richard O’Brien KC, Anthony Jones and Camilla Cockerill

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23 January 2025

A discussion of the ECHR’s decision in Klimaseniorinnen and the ITLOS, Inter-American and ICJ Advisory Opinions. Join Richard O’Brien KC, Camilla Cockerill, and Anthony Jones as they examine States’ international law obligations in the context of climate change.

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About the Speakers:

  • Richard O’Brien KC is a leading public law barrister, recognised for his incisive legal mind and dedication. Richard regularly represents and advises government departments and local authorities. Praised as “fantastically acute” and “extremely hard-working,” he was appointed silk in 2024. 
  • Anthony Jones specialises in public international law, treaty interpretation, investment treaty claims and State responsibility. Anthony is a co-author of The ICSID Convention, Rules and Regulations: A Practical Commentary, 2019 and is ranked as Band 1 in international human rights law and administrative law and human rights by Chambers UK and The Legal 500. 
  • Camilla Cockerill specialises in commercial and public international law. Camilla’s secondment at the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) in 2024 provided her with hands-on experience in a range of public international law matters. She was recently instructed to act for a coalition of NGOs from Caribbean Island states in proceedings before the Inter American Court of Human Rights in the historic Chile / Columbia climate change Advisory Opinion.

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Richard O’Brien KC

Call: 2005 Silk: 2024

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Camilla Cockerill

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