The inaugural conference of the MCC Project, to be held at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 on October 18, 2024, will focus on human and cultural rights issues at the interface between the law of the sea and the law of climate. At the heart of these debates are fishing and the right to food, indigenous peoples, population displacement, the protection of cultural and natural heritage, and national and international litigation based on human rights. The various referrals to regional courts for the protection of human rights are good illustrations of this (the first cases to be heard by the European Court in 2024, and the request for an opinion filed by Colombia and Chile before the Inter-American Court in 2023). Proposals for papers should therefore propose a reading based on fundamental or cultural rights of climate issues for oceans and coastal communities.
The conference proceedings will be published. The deadline for submission of final texts is November 15, 2024. Proposals for papers of no more than one page in French or English (Times New Roman, single-spaced, font 12), together with a CV, should be sent by Wednesday 26 June 2024 to kiara.neri@univ-lyon3.fr and pascale.ricard@univ-amu.fr . There will be no simultaneous translation at the conference.