Centre for Environmental Law and Climate Change
October 11, 2023 2024-11-06 9:27Centre for Environmental Law and Climate Change
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Centre for Environmental Law and Climate Change
Vision
The Centre for Environmental Law and Climate Change (CELCC) has the vision to educate, equip and raise awareness about environmental legal issues, including justice considerations. It focuses on research on contemporary legal challenges involving the environment and climate change and aims to advocate for environmental protection, conservation, preservation and regeneration. Further, it seeks to enhance law and policy consciousness through collaborative actions involving students, the community and faculty through discussion, exchange of ideas, collaborative learning and research.
Objectives
CELCC aims to promote theme-based research, learning and dissemination on current challenges and understanding of the same within environmental, natural resources and climate justice laws in existence and attempts to address the gaps within law and policy.
The following themes remain the focus;
- Environmental justice issues within the Asian region. This includes areas such as recognition of legal personhood for nature with a comparative view, challenges within enacted laws with respect to traditional forest dwellers, resettlement and rehabilitation after land acquisition by state;
- Climate change impacts- status of refugees both transnational and intra-state; climate change litigation and impacts; unrecognised heroes of environmental and climate change impact events within India;
- Biodiversity protection, Wildlife Protection laws, Illegal trafficking of endangered species; exclusionary conservation issues; human -animal conflict;
- Mining related environmental justice challenges and related issues within states and Union Territories and impact on forest and natural resources governance and management;
- Environment protection and pollution control laws, especially citing of waste incineration plants;
The centre’s main goal is to facilitate research, encourage research-related activities at the university. It also aims to contribute to the university’s effort to create an ecosystem for research across the entire campus.
Amongst the above theme-based objectives, CELCC focuses on building an effective network among stakeholders, undertake activities to create sensitivity among students, conduct training and capacity-building programmes, provide consultancy on environmental issues, and create a research oriented interdisciplinary environmental law community.
To achieve these objectives, the CECC will undertake the following activities:
- Promote student and faculty research initiatives by organizing national and international seminars, webinars, conferences and faculty development programmes.
- Involve students in raising awareness and sensitivity about Environmental Conservation through community-wide activities. Organize expert talk series through online and offline modes, ensuring the dissemination of environmental knowledge. Create blog posts and newsletters regarding recent developments in environmental law, natural resources law and climate change-related issues, current events, for further dissemination, learning and exchange of ideas.
- Collaborate with the Environment Research Centres of other National and International institutions for high-impact research.
We solicit original and unpublished work on a rolling basis from students, legal practitioners, and academics in environmental law and climate change. Authors must submit only original and unpublished work. If found otherwise, we reserve the right to reject the manuscript. The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject or take down the already published manuscript if any discrepancy is found post-acceptance or post-publication. The manuscript can be a short article, case comment, legislative analysis, or notes on contemporary matters on environmental law and climate change. One must make sure to follow the general guidelines given below before submitting their write-up.
Submission requirements
Length
- Article – 1200-1500 words
- Case commentaries – 1200- 1500 words
- Legislative analysis – 1200- 1500 words
- News snippets – 500 – 800 words
The provided word limits exclude footnotes, end notes, or references.
General
Please make sure to submit the final version of the write-up. The document should be complete with citations, references, etc. The submitted work is subject to review and approval. One must be open to making amendments at the request of the approval team. The approval process may take 10-15 working days.
Summary of the Article
Authors must attach a summary of the article of not more than150 words. The summary may be mentioned in the manuscript or the body of the submission mail.
General guidelines for the writers
- Title – All submissions must have a title representing the article’s main content.
- Citation –Authors must cite their work in the citation style APA (American Psychological Association) 7th edition or OSCOLA throughout their article. General guidelines of the APA format can be found at: https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/apa#s-lg-box-21191607 General guidelines for OSCOLA referencing can be found at: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/oscola
Assessment Criteria
Submissions shall be judged for their originality and critical analysis. Articles must utilize sources to support their independent thoughts and ideas. The arguments presented forward must be backed up by thorough research. Authors must also engage with relevant case law and must have contemporary relevance.
Submission guidelines
- The manuscript should be mailed to celcc@jgu.edu.in with the subject – [Title of the Paper] | Blog Submission | [Name of the Author].
Chronicles of Natural Resources Law
Executive Director – Prof. (Dr.) Charu Sharma
 | Vacancy for interested faculty Various positions as circulated by the Office of the Research Dean are open:
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For students as research assistants (4 vacancies)
- Kindly send a 1000 word write up on either your current research interest or any article you are writing; or why you would like to join and what motivates your interest in this area.
- Kindly note positions will be filled after your submission and due invitation and a personal interview on a rolling basis until the positions are filled.
- Commitment to the centre’s activity at least for a year.
BOOKS:
CHARU SHARMA, “TORT LIABILITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIMS IN INDIA: A COMPARATIVE VIEW”, UNIVERSAL LAW, LEXISNEXIS, INDIA, 2017 (300 PAGES)
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- Charu Sharma (Co-Authored), “The Curious Case Of ‘Violation’: Deconstructing The Procedure Under The Draft Environmental Impact Assessment Notification 2020”, Indian Law Review, 6:1, 96-106, Doi: 10.1080/24730580.2021.1992576 (Print) Published Online 26 October 2021
- Charu Sharma, “Sustainable Development As A Sine Qua Non For Sustainable Living – Lesson From Reinterpreting ‘Matsaya Nyaya’ Or ‘Justice In The World Of Fish’”, National Green Tribunal International Journal Of Environment, Vol 2, 2017, 37-50 (India)
- “Environmental Liability”, Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources (OUP 2024, UK)
- Authors: Charu Sharma (Executive Director, CELCC) and Vishavjeet Chaudhary (Advocate, Supreme Court of India)
- Focus: Institutional and Regulatory Dimensions of Environmental Liability.
- On implementation of SDGs within Law schools – Asian Journal of Legal Education, 2024, Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals into India’s Legal Education Landscape: The What, Why and How of a Reform Paradigm, Tony George Puthucherril, Charu Sharma, Amritha V. Shenoy, Saurabh Sood and Stuti Lal Online First (2024) https://doi.org/10.1177/2322005824126561
DECONSTRUCTING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LECTURE SERIES
- (Dr.) Stellina Jolly – Deconstructing Environmental Justice Series – Exploring the Contours of Indian Judicial Statements in Promoting Environmental Justice
- Shyama Kuriakose – Deconstructing Environmental Justice Series – Environmental Policy Making from the Lens of Social Justice
- (Dr.) Atul Alexander – Deconstructing Environmental Justice Series – Environment and International Law: Voice from the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
- (Dr.) M.K. Ramesh – Deconstructing Environmental Justice – Struggles of Those Who Are Unrecognized and Unspoken About
- Kanika Jamwal – Truly Transformative?: Analyzing Indian Judicial Jurisprudence on Rights of Nature Using the Transformative Governance Framework
- Ms Vidhi Thukral, Advocate (ESG), New Delhi, India,
Deconstructing Environmental Justice Lecture Series
CELCC’s Deconstructing Environmental Justice lecture series will be continued by inviting subject experts across through the course of the upcoming semesters.
Journal Publication of Special Issue on Natural Resources Law and Management (Forthcoming December 2024)
Articles in this Scopus listed journal examine and explore various challenges within the legal framework and existing policies in respect of management and governance of natural resources and the intersectionality with various other areas, contextual framework of principles and rights within India and other jurisdictions and related challenges with possible solutions.
Chronicles of NRL Post Series
Chronicles of NRL is a new attempt to encourage research-oriented writing. It is a serial post that highlights learning experiences of the students, their reflections and opinions while exploring the challenges within Natural Resources Law and environmental law in class. Although especially for students, NRL chronicle Post invites short submissions from interested authors -students, faculty or others to express themselves creatively through opinion pieces, poems or even descriptive photography or art apart from short articles that are research based.
Conference Collaboration
The centre is open to collaborate and exchange for interdisciplinary research with other institutions like non-profit organizations, and other academic centres, both national and international.
Get in Touch!
For any queries or suggestions, feel free to email us at: celcc@jgu.edu.in