Hon. Judge Charles Doherty Gonthier Memorial Lecture: Human Rights, the Sustainable Development Goals & the Law

15 May 2020

Co-hosted by the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the Centre International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), in partnership with the University of Montreal Law Faculty, the University of Waterloo School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED), the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), the University of Chile Law Faculty, the University of Costa Rica Law Faculty, the International Law Association of Canada, the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law (MJSDL), Canada’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network and other world-class universities and institutions, this lecture brings leading participants in the international community to consider pressing issues of sustainable development.

Confirmed co-hosts and 2020 Gonthier Lecturers include:

Dr. Elizabeth Mrema (Acting Executive-Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity and Director of Environmental Law, United Nations Environment Programme); Hon Justice Prof Marcel Szabo (Judge, Constitutional Court of Hungary and former Ombudsman for Future Generations); Rt Hon. Chief Justice Richard Wagner, PC, Supreme Court of Canada.

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