César Rodríguez-Garavito

Professor of Clinical Law
Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice

César Rodríguez-Garavito

César Rodríguez-Garavito is Professor of Clinical Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. He is the founding director of the Earth Rights Research & Action (TERRA) Clinic, the More-Than-Human Rights (MOTH) Program, the Climate Law Accelerator, and the Future of Rights and Governance (FORGE) Program at NYU Law. Professor Rodríguez-Garavito is a field lawyer and an Earth rights and human rights scholar whose work focuses on climate change, international environmental law, Indigenous peoples' rights and more-than-human rights.

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Rodríguez-Garavito served as co-editor of Cambridge University Press’s Globalization and Human Rights book series, the Annual Review of Law and Social Science and the Business and Human Rights Journal. He has also served in the boards of the Business and Human Rights Resource Center and WITNESS.

His publications include More-Than-Human Rights: An Ecology of Law, Thought and Narrative for Earthly Flourishing (NYU, ed.); Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Human Rights, Courts and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action (Cambridge, ed.); “Human Rights 2030: Existential Challenges and a New Paradigm for the Field” (Oxford); "A Rights Turn in Biodiversity Litigation? (Transnational Environmental Law, coaut.) “Climatizing Human Rights: Economic and Social Rights for the Anthropocene” (Oxford); "Globalizing the Indigenous: The Making of International Human Rights from Below" (Hart) Business and Human Rights: Beyond the End of the Beginning (Cambridge, ed.); Radical Deprivation on Trial: The Impact of Judicial Activism on Socioeconomic Rights in the Global South (Cambridge, coaut.); Compliance with Socioeconomic Rights Judgments (Cambridge, co-ed.); Balancing Wealth and Health: the Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America (Oxford, co-ed.); “Amphibious Sociology: Action-Research for a Multimedia World” (Current Sociology); “The Future of Human Rights: From Gatekeeping to Symbiosis” (Sur Journal); Law and Society in Latin America: A New Map (Routledge, ed.); Making it Stick: Compliance with Social Rights Judgments (Cambridge, co-ed.); “Ethnicity.gov: Global Governance, Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Prior Consultation in Social Minefields” (Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies); “Beyond the Courtroom: The Impact of Judicial Activism on Socioeconomic Rights in Latin America” (Texas Law Review); “Global Governance and Labor Rights: Codes of Conduct and Anti-Sweatshop Struggles in Global Apparel Factories in Mexico and Guatemala” (Politics & Society); and Law and Globalization from Below: Toward a Cosmopolitan Legality (Cambridge, co-ed.).

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