{"id":44256,"date":"2016-03-28T07:34:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T17:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=44256"},"modified":"2020-03-12T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T00:27:05","slug":"brazils-national-high-court-justice-visits-the-uh-law-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/28\/brazils-national-high-court-justice-visits-the-uh-law-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil’s national high court justice visits the UH<\/abbr> law school"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Justice Antonio Benjamin of the National High Court of Brazil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Justice Antonio Herman Benjamin<\/a> of the National High Court of Brazil, and a renowned leader in the global environmental law community, will be in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> as the international jurist-in-residence at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> from March 28 to April 2, 2016.<\/p>\n

Justice Benjamin has a full schedule for his week in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> hosted by the Richardson law school, including a public address on Thursday, March 31, 11:45 a.m. at the law school on “How Judges Confront Global Environmental Law Challenges.”<\/p>\n

He will also give lectures and hold informal meetings with law students, spend time with the Chief Justice and Justices of the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Supreme Court and the judges of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s new Environmental Court, and meet Governor David Ige and state legislators, and a cross-section of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> environmental lawyers. His visit is hosted by the Case, Lombardi and Pettit law firm, which sponsors the Jurist-in-Residence program.<\/p>\n

Justice Benjamin is the chair of the World Commission on Environmental Law<\/a>, which is one of the six global commissions of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature<\/a>. IUCN<\/abbr> is a global consortium of nations, universities, institutes and agencies that are working to find pragmatic solutions for pressing global environmental and development challenges. The UH<\/abbr> law school’s Environmental Law Program<\/a> was recently admitted as a formal voting member of the IUCN<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

Said Associate Dean Denise Antolini<\/strong>, “Justice Benjamin’s visit to Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> helps us add a critical global dimension to our perspective on environmental law issues.<\/p>\n

“It is a genuine honor and pleasure to host a person of Justice Benjamin’s stature in the field of law and within the global environmental community,” said School of Law Dean Avi Soifer<\/strong>. “Our law students and our community are most fortunate to be able to meet him one-on-one and to hear his views on vital environmental issues. He is also a global leader in the growing trend to launch environmental courts as a major step toward a healthy and sustainable future.”<\/p>\n

Read the William S. Richardson School of Law news release<\/a> for more on Justice Benjamin’s visit.<\/p>\n

—By Beverly Creamer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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