Lucy Maxwell

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Lucy Maxwell is a human rights lawyer and Senior Legal Associate at the Climate Litigation Network, a project of the Urgenda Foundation. Lucy provided support to the legal team for the claimants in the People v Arctic Oil case.

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People v Arctic Oil before Supreme Court of Norway – What’s at stake for human rights protection in the climate crisis?

During the past week, the Norwegian Supreme Court has been hearing the People v Arctic Oil case, a rights-based challenge to the Norwegian State’s grant of petroleum exploration licenses. The case raises myriad questions of significance regarding States’ human rights obligations in the context of climate change. Here, we consider two of them: the geographic scope…

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