Conference Papers/Talks

29 October 2024

Amy Strecker, Invited speaker, 12th Conference of the CoE Landscape Convention. Session III - 'The impact of the triple planetary crisis of pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss on human rights: towards landscape-based solutions.' Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 29 October 2024.

15 October 2024

Amanda Byer, Invited speaker, Legacy Land: Disaster Capitalism and Land Grabs, Island City Labs, Kingston, 15 October 2024.

9 October 2024

Amy Strecker, Keynote speaker, International Workshop 'Disentangling the relationships between race, property and climate finance', Goethe University Frankfurt, 9 October 2024

26 June 2024

Sinéad Mercier & Amy Strecker, Plenary 6 speakers, Decolonizing the Social Imaginary. Doing economics in the Fifth Province, Re-Thinking Growth Conference (Wellbeing Economy Alliance and Feasta), Trinity College Dublin, 26 June 2024.

25 June 2024

Amanda Byer - ‘Landscape, law and justice in the Caribbean: The experience of Barbuda and the Mussington judgment', Nordic Geographers Meeting [Interrelations between landscape, law and justice], Copenhagen, 25 May 2024.

Sonya Cotton - 'Displacing communities to fit the law: transnational sources of apartheid and landscape injustice in South Africa.' Nordic Geographers Meeting [Interrelations between landscape, law and justice], 25 May 2024.

30 April 2024

Amanda Byer - ‘Caribbean Environmental law: An Overview’, Global Legal Action Network/Stronger Caribbean Together Network ‘Know Yuh Rights’ Legal Workshop, 30th April 2024.

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25 April 2024

Amanda Byer - ‘Exclusion, Ecological Restoration and Environmental Democracy in Caribbean Environmental Law’, Law and the Environment Conference, University College Cork, 25th April 2024.

Amy Strecker - 'Development Projects and Cultural Rights', Law and the Environment Conference, University College Cork, 25th April 2024.

17 April 2024

Amanda Byer - 'Property, Landscape and Spatial Justice.' Invited talk. Centre for People, Property and Community, 17 April 2024, Southampton Law School.

11 April 2024

Amanda Byer - 'Small Island Developing States, Spatial Justice and the Climate Crisis: A Caribbean Perspective', Workshop: Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: Moving from Heritage Loss to Reparation, Constitutionalizing the Anthropocene. Tilburg Law School, 11 April 2024.

21 February 2024

Amy Strecker and Sinéad Mercier - Interlude: 'Land, natural resources and property in the Irish Constitution. Comments on Articles 10 and 43.'
First Durational Reading of Bunreacht n hÉireann, the Constitution of Ireland, organised by Julie Morrissy and Maebh Harding. 21 February 2024, Sutherland School of Law.

2 February 2024

Amanda Byer - Amanda Byer, ‘Land, Property and Spatial Justice: New Directions in the Law,’ Presentation to the Stronger Caribbean Together Network, 2nd February 2024.

1 December 2023

Amy Strecker - Invited speaker, III UN Intersessional Workshop on Cultural Rights and the Protection of Cultural Heritage, organised pursuant to Human Rights Council Resolution 49/7. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 1 December 2023.

27 November 2023

Raphael Ng'etich - "A double edged sword? International law in natural resource governance'. Goldsmiths, University Of London, 27 November 2023

11-13 September 2023

Raphael Ng'etich - "Drawing the rest of the owl: Due diligence and the sanctuary of indefeasible title in Kenya" (Stream 13. Property as haven – sanctuary or escape?) Critical Legal Conference, University of Durham, 11-13 September 2023

14 August 2023

Sonya Cotton - "Who Stands on Land? Legislating “Community” after Apartheid", presented at Land Accountability Research Center, University of Cape Town, 14 August 2023.

21 April 2023

International Law and Global Justice - TWAIL Approaches and Transnational Conversations, Maynooth University

Amanda Byer - "Climate justice from the interstices: Spatial dimensions of TWAIL"

Sinéad Mercier - "Charting the contribution of Irish Energy law to justice transitions in the Anthropocene"

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20 April 2023

UCC Law and the Environment Conference

Amanda Byer -"Complicating Rights of Nature: A Global South Perspective"

Sinéad Mercier - "Tracing Balor's Eyeline: Energy Law in the Anthropocene"

Sonya Cotton -"Jamming Shut the Floodgates to Public Interest Litigation: Locus Standi in Ireland and Namibia"

Amy Strecker - "Protection or Destruction? The ambiguous development of Ireland's cultural heritage law."

4-6 April 2023

Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Derry

Sonya Cotton -"The law does not recognise you. Defining communities in (post)colonial Namibia and South Africa."

Amanda Byer -"Splintering or Spatialising? Spatially just approaches to international environmental law."

Amy Strecker -"Heritage Destruction, Development Projects and Cultural Rights."

Sinead Mercier -"Landscape or Lawscape? Energy Law in the Anthropocene."

10 March 2023

Amy Strecker - "International Law and Reparatory Justice for Indigenous Peoples in the Caribbean" (Keynote address), 10th International Garifuna Conference, Kingstown, St. Vincent (via Zoom), 10 March 2023

22 November 2022

Amy Strecker - "Landscape, Property, and Spatial [In]Justice in International Law."
Landscape, Law, and Justice + 20 Year Anniversary Symposium, Vitterhetsakademien, Stockholm, 22-23 November 2022


21 October 2022

Amy Strecker - "Landscape, Property, and Spatial Justice" - A Poem
Futures Thinking, UCD + TCD, 20-21 October 2022

13-16 July 2022

Project panel, "Land, Property and Spatial [In]justice: Reclaiming Landscapes in the Former British Empire", Law and Society Global Meeting, Rage, Reckoning and Remedy, Lisbon.

Amanda Byer -"Emparking Empire: Challenging Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law."

Sinéad Mercier - "Grounding the Land in the Otherworld. The Fairyfort in Landscape and Lawscape."

Sonya Cotton -"Who Stands on Land? Legislating Community in Anglophone Southern Africa."

Raphael Ng'etich - "A Spatial Justice Lens on the Legacies of Colonial Policies on Present-Day Land Governance in Kenya."

29 June 2022

Project panel, "Land, Law and Spatial Justice in the Former British Empire", Legal Histories of Empire conference, Maynooth University (Legal Transfer in the Common Law World, stream).

Amanda Byer: "Reserving Space - Land, Nature and Empire in the Development of Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law."

Sinéad Mercier: "Lawscape or Landscape? Finding Space for the Irish Fairyfort."

Sonya Cotton: "Anxious Pluralisms and Communal Land in Anglophone Southern Africa."

Raphael Ng'etich: "Competing Notions of Land in Colonial Kenya, and Impact on Present Day Land Governance."

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10 June 2022

Sonya Cotton, “Prefiguring “community” in international law and land justice in South Africa”, Hart Workshop, Responding to the Crises: Law, Alternative Economies and Activism, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London.

9 June 2022

Amy Strecker & Amanda Byer, “Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice”, Hart Workshop, Responding to the Crises: Law, Alternative Economies and Activism, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London.

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13 May 2022

Sinéad Mercier, “Fairy Forts, Holy Wells and Rag Trees: Grounding the Land in the Otherworld.” Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice international symposium, PROPERTY [IN]JUSTICE & UCD Sutherland School of Law, MoLI/UCD Newman House, Dublin.

12 May 2022

Raphael Ng’etich, “CETA Ratification, ISDS, and Implications for Land Use in Ireland.” Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice international symposium, PROPERTY [IN]JUSTICE & UCD Sutherland School of Law, MoLI/UCD Newman House, Dublin.

12 May 2022

Sonya Cotton, “Communities of Dispossession and Spatial Injustice in Southern Africa.” Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice international symposium, PROPERTY [IN]JUSTICE & UCD Sutherland School of Law, MoLI/UCD Newman House, Dublin.

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5 May 2022

Amanda Byer, “Interpretive Possibilities. The Aarhus Convention and the Escazu Agreement in the context of the Right to a Healthy Environment.” UCC Law and the Environment Conference 'Environmental Rights: From Discourse to Legal Action’, University College Cork.

5 May 2022

Amy Strecker, “The Right to Landscape in Theory and in Practice.” UCC Law and the Environment Conference 'Environmental Rights: From Discourse to Legal Action’, University College Cork.

5 May 2022

Sinéad Mercier, “The Right to Landscape in the Irish Context: Interactions with Cultural and Natural Heritage Law.” UCC Law and the Environment Conference 'Environmental Rights: From Discourse to Legal Action’, University College Cork.

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31 March 2022

Raphael Ng’etich, “Going back to go forward: Reinfusing inclusive conceptualisations of land in community land governance in Kenya to mitigate geographical injustices,” 14th Biennial Modern Studies in Property Law Conference, St. John’s College, Oxford.

25 November 2020

29 September 2021

Amanda Byer: “Heritage, Landscape & Spatial Justice”, UCD Sutherland School of Law Research Seminar series.

Amy Strecker: "Landscape and Legal Identity," The Future of the European Landscape (ELC+20), Culemborg.

17 September 2021

Amy Strecker: “Landscape and Legal Identity,” The Future of the European Landscape (ELC+20), Culemborg.

2 September 2021

Amanda Byer:  “Placing property: Land, Spatial Justice and the Common Law,”  Society of Legal Scholars 112th Annual Conference 2021, Durham University

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Raphael Ng'etich: "Conceptualisations of Land, the Constitution and Land Acquisition in Kenya," UCD Centre for Constitutional Studies Workshop.

13 July 2021

Raphael Ng’etich: “Conceptualisations of Land, the Constitution and Land Acquisition in Kenya,” UCD Centre for Constitutional Studies Workshop.

Sonya Cotton: "Communities of (Dis)possession and Spatial Justice in South Africa," Contested Legalities: Translocal Encounters with Transnational Law, University of Melbourne

9 July 2021

Sonya Cotton: “Communities of (Dis)possession and Spatial Justice in South Africa,” Contested Legalities: Translocal Encounters with Transnational Law, University of Melbourne

7 May 2021

Amy Strecker, Sonya Cotton and Raphael Ng'etich, Featured panelists. Critical Exploration of Human Rights: When Human Rights become Part of the Problem. UCD Centre for Human Rights Conference, 7-8 May 2021, University College Dublin, Ireland, 23rd Irish European Law Forum.

Amy Strecker - "Land Property and Spatial (In)Justice in Regional Human Rights"

Sonya Cotton - "Land Rights and Post-colonial African Legality in Southern Africa"

Raphael Ng'etich - "The Right to Private Property, Categories of Land Ownership & the Production of Unjust Geographies in Kenya"

31 March 2021

31 March 2021

Amy Strecker, Invited panelist, “Caribbean reparations, indigenous peoples, and spatial injustice”. The Transnational Case for Reparations. Repair, Redress and Emancipation. Fourth Baptista Forum, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University.

18 February 2021

18 February 2021

Sonya Cotton, “Pluralising Property: Land, Legal Pluralism and Foreign Investments in Southern Africa”, Osgood Graduate conference on Law’s Topologies: The Map, Territory and Spaces in Between.

16 October 2020

25 November 2020

Amy Strecker, “Landscape, Property, and Spatial (In)Justice: Problems and Prospects of articulating Landscape as Commons in Law”, keynote paper, Cultivating Continuity of the European Landscape: New Challenges, Innovative Perspectives, UNISCAPE conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of the European Landscape Convention.

25 November 2020

16 October 2020

Amy Strecker, “Landscape, Property and Spatial Justice in International Law,” UCD Sutherland School of Law Research Seminar series.