Legal indicators for the right of future generations

MRSH- Caen November 22-23, 2019

Scientific leaders :

Michel Prieur
Professor Emeritus at the University of Limoges
Scientific Director of CRIDEAU
Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Law and Economics of LIMOGES
President of the International Center of Comparative Environmental Law

Emilie Gaillard
Associate Professor of Private Law, SciencesPo Rennes
Coordinator of the Normandy Chair for Peace
Partner: International Centre for Comparative Environmental Law (CIDCE)

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Project Objectives:

• To study the legalization of the right of future generations, its theoretical and practical consequences on environmental law, human rights and society.

• To develop a scientific measurement of the implementation of the right of future generations using legal indicators of effectiveness. Thanks to legal indicators, we give public authorities and citizens a readable tool for the scientific evaluation of a public policy that will allow them to avoid making reforms “blindly”.

This project will build on the unpublished work of Professor Michel Prieur published in 2018 by the Francophone Institute for Sustainable Development (IFDD) agency of the International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF) and entitled “legal indicators, tools for assessing the effectiveness of environmental law.”

On November 22 and 23, we will bring together researchers who have worked on legal indicators in France and abroad in order to review the state of the art and to plan the action to be taken within the Normandy Chair for Peace in order to promote and experiment with legal indicators in the field of future generations’ rights.

Program:

Friday, November 22nd

9.30 am – Opening by Emilie Gaillard, holder of the Normandy Chair for Peace, professor at Sciences po Rennes

• Round table discussion of participants
• Presentation of the Chair and its work themes

10 am – History of the legal indicators by Michel Prieur, professor emeritus and president of the CICDE

EXPERIMENTATIONS

10.30 am

• Brasil: by Fernanda Cavedon Capdeville, doctor of law, research fellow at the Federal University of Santa Caterina, Florianópolis

11.15 am Break

11.30 am

• France: by Boris Barraud, doctor of law, inderdisciplinary laboratory for law, media and social mutations, Aix en Provence

12.15 am

• Portugal: by Alexandra Aragao, professor at the University of Coimbra, national correspondant of the CIDCE for Portugal

1 pm lunch

2.15 pm

• Jerusalem Seminar and the Effectiveness of Law by Julien Bétaille, lecturer, Toulouse, national correspondent of the CIDCE for France

3 pm

• The Organization of American States (OAS) and Human Rights by Fernanda Cavedon Capdeville

3.45 pm

•  Measuring the effectiveness of international law and the experience of the Barcelona Convention: by Jose Juste-Ruiz, Professor of International Law at the University of Valencia, member of the Compliance Committee of the Barcelona Convention, national correspondent of the CIDCE for Spain

4.15 pm

• IRD and law of the sea by Marie Bonnin, doctor of law  in law, research fellow at the Institute of Research for Development, IRD development, IRD, Brest and Odeline Billaut, IRD, Brest

5 pm break

5.15 pm

• Tunisia: by Leila Chikhaoui , professor at the Faculty of Law of Tunis, University of Carthage, member of the provisional authority of control of constitutionality of bills, national correspondent of the CIDCE for Tunisia

6 pm  The research on “legal indicators, tools for evaluating the effectiveness of environmental law” OIF-IFDD, UN Environment, IUCN, ECOWAS, CIDCE by Michel Prieur

6.45 pm The mathematical of legal indicators and simulation on the decarbonization plan of Costa Rica by Christophe Bastin, Engineer, SIC Nouvelle Aquitaine, Scientific Advisor of the CIDCE indicators program

7.45 pm diner

Saturday, November 23

DEBATE ON THE OBJECTIVES AND THE METHODS 

9 am debate on the objectives of legal indicators and the links with the right of future generations: Alfredo Pena Vega, PhD in sociology, Centre Edgar Morin, EHESS

10 am Debate on the methods : Christophe Bastin, Engineer

11 am Break

WORK PLAN OF THE CHAIR: PROMOTION AND EXPERIMENTATION OF LEGAL INDICATORS IN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL LAW

11.15 am Current and planned activities by Michel Prieur

11.45 am The four-year program

12.15 am Lunch

2 pm INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN 2020 : CHOICE OF THEMES AND PARTICIPANTS

• Multidisciplinary theoretical foundations
• Practical illustrations in international and comparative law
• Choice of date, location (castle of Cerisy) and duration

3.15 pm PARTICIPATION TO INTERNATIONAL FORUMS

• Participation in the UN Oceans Conference in Lisbon, 1-5 June 2020
• Participation in the IUCN congress, Marseilles, 11-19 June 2020
• Participation to the COP 15 on biodiversity in Beijing october 2020

4 pm Balance sheet and closing