César Rodríguez-Garavito

César Rodríguez-Garavito is an Earth rights scholar, field lawyer, and founding director of the MOTH Program at NYU School of Law. He is a Professor of Law and Director of the Earth Rights Research & Action (TERRA) Clinic at NYU. César’s work has advanced new ideas and legal actions worldwide on issues such as climate justice, Indigenous rights, and what he proposes to call “more-than-human rights” (rights of nature). His contributions to Earth rights have been recognized with a More-Than-Human Fellowship by the London Design Museum and a spot in the UN Museum’s Top 10 Culture for Impact 2024 List.

César has been a member of the Science Panel for the Amazon, an expert witness of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, an Adjunct Judge of the Constitutional Court of Colombia and a lead litigator in climate change, rights of nature, socioeconomic rights and Indigenous rights cases. His work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, National Geographic, Bloomberg, Emergence Magazine, El País, Atmos and Mongabay. His recent publications include More-Than-Human Rights: An Ecology of Law, Thought and Narrative for Earthly Flourishing (NYU, ed.); “What If We Understood What Animals Are Saying? The Legal Impact of AI-Assisted Studies of Animal Communication” (Ecology Law Quarterly) and Climate Change on Trial: Mobilizing Human Rights to Accelerate Climate Action (Cambridge).