Exploration of the use of restorative justice to address environmental harm. 

We will be sharing highlights from the recently published Restorative Justice Approaches for Environmental Harm Practice Guide from the EFRJ and looking at where and how Environmental Restorative Justice could be developed in the UK.

We will look at a case study, briefly present highlights from the practice guide and outreach guide, hear from an expert in environmental law on if and how these approaches might work, and discuss ‘what next?’ for this work in the UK.

Speakers will include:

• Prof Miranda Forsyth (Australian National University)

• Prof Ivo Aertsen (University of Leuven)

• Lawrence Kershen KC

• Prof Liz Fisher (University of Oxford)

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This event is FREE (although donations to support our work are gratefully accepted) and will be held online on Zoom. Registration is on Eventbrite:

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Professor Ivo Aertsen is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the University of Leuven (Belgium). At the Leuven Institute of Criminology he led the Research Line on ‘Restorative Justice and Victimology’ from 2001 to 2019. He was chair of the European Forum for Restorative Justice from 2000 to 2004, and has coordinated a series of European research projects and international publications.

Professor Miranda Forsyth is a Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) in the College of Law, Governance and Policy at the Australian National University. She has research interests in legal pluralism, restorative justice, regulation, crime and peace and is passionate about exploring pathways for more widespread use of restorative approaches. She is co-Director of the ANU Centre for Restorative Justice and led an ARC Linkage grant into environmental restorative justice.

Professor Liz Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law, Faculty of Law and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. She is author, among other works, of Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2017). 

Lawrence Kershen KC was accredited as a mediator in 1994 and practised as a barrister and Kings Counsel for more than 30 years until 1999. He was accredited as an RJ practitioner in 2011 and was chair of the Restorative Justice Council. The potential of RJ in the current climate crisis has led to a particular focus on Environmental Restorative Justice (ERJ). He is a member of the ERJ Working Group of the European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ).