
Screening: The Tribunal / El tribunal A documentary film by Malcolm Rogge
The Tribunal, a 28-minute documentary about human rights and international investment law, is a powerful affirmation of the strength of affected communities and a blistering critique of the international investor arbitration system. Rogge does not hit you over the head with his message; instead, he communicates through the words of local farmers, activists, and educators and through his stunning photography. Filmed in the megadiverse Ecuadorian cloud forest, the film brings to light the troubling human rights impacts on local nature defenders of the international investment arbitration system.
Following the screening, join us for a discussion of the broader human rights issues surrounding investor-state arbitration. Remarks by Professor Gus van Harten and the filmmaker, Malcolm Rogge. Event moderated by Professor Emeritus Shin Imai.
This event would not be made possible without the generous contributions from the Jack & Mae Nathason Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Dr. Rogge is a Business and Human Rights scholar and practitioner, as well as an international award-winning documentary filmmaker. Dr Rogge is a Senior Advisor to Ecoforensic C.I.C., a community interest company that supports rights of nature advocacy through citizen-science initiatives, such as training community para-ecologists to collect data for use in rights of nature litigation. Dr Rogge collaborates with Ecoforensic C.I.C. in support of constitutional rights of nature litigation efforts by three communities in Ecuador’s Andean and low-mountain Amazon regions. These cases are framed within the rights of nature provisions established in Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution.
Dr Rogge completed his Doctorate of Juridical Science (SJD) at Harvard Law School under the supervision of University Professor Amartya Sen, Professor Robert C. Clark (now Emeritus), Professor John Coates and Professor John G. Ruggie. Previously, he completed the joint J.D. and Master of Environmental Studies program at Osgoode Hall / York University in Toronto, concentrating on human rights and the environment, working closely with Professor Liisa L. North (now Emeritus). He holds a Graduate Diploma in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) and a B.A. First Class Double Honours in Philosophy and English Literature from the University of Manitoba.
