Team: City Law School, City Sustainability Society and The City Law School Societies
Abstract
Join us for a Sustainable City Week special discussing the importance of sustainability in the legal industry.
If you are wondering how you can develop a successful legal career but also maintain your principles around environmental and social justice this is the event for you.
Our brilliant panel will dive deep into what it means to be ‘sustainable’ and how to transfer your passions over into a successful legal career.
Register now for the opportunity to learn more about pathways into a sustainable legal career and the chance to network with our guest speakers.
Panel speakers
Barasha Borthakur
Barasha is a Herchel Smith Doctoral Scholar at the Centre for Commercial and Legal Studies, School of Law, QMUL, where she researches green IP and climate change law.
She is a graduate teaching associate of Global IP law in QMUL and has also mentored in the area of climate change laws at the School of Climate Change, University of Oxford.
Barasha is an active contributor to the development of the Net Zero Tracker as a data collector, with the Blavatnik School (Public Policy), University of Oxford.
Barasha completed her BA, LLB (Hons.) from National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam (2014-2019), and her LLM from National Law University, Jodhpur (2019-2020).
Jodie Blackstock
Jodie is a barrister at Garden Court Chambers. She is a public law and human rights specialist, with extensive experience in justice system reform through policy, research and strategic litigation.
Jodie was Legal Director of JUSTICE for five years until 2021. She brings extensive policy, research and strategic litigation expertise to her practice. Jodie also has considerable international and comparative law experience, particularly of EU and Caribbean law.
She undertook internships in Texas (on defending appellate capital cases) and Trinidad and Tobago prior to pupillage in 2003, following which she qualified to practice in the English-speaking Caribbean in 2007. She has appeared in local appellate courts as well as the Privy Council.
Jodie was involved in setting up the organisation Lawyers Are Responsible whose signatories have declared not to provide their legal services towards the extraction of fossil fuels or the prosecution of climate protesters and is working to ask law firms to withdraw their services from this work.
Jodie is Treasurer of the Bar Human Rights Committee with which she has undertaken training programmes, trial observations and drafted statements on human rights abuses across the globe.
Jodie enjoys folk music, singing in the Cecil Sharp House Choir, as well helping to conserve her local ancient woodland.
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