Meet the Speakers: Catherine Savard

Catherine Savard is a DPhil in Law candidate at the University of Oxford, where her thesis focuses on ecocide in international law. She holds two master’s degrees, respectively from the University of Oxford (MPhil in Law) and from Laval University (LL.M., hons.).

Before joining Oxford, Catherine notably clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada, served as a legal adviser to Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and coordinated the Canadian Partnership for International Justice. She is a Trudeau Foundation fellow, twice a Humphrey scholar from the Canadian Council on International Law

She will speak at the conference this Friday as part of the panel “Accountability and Repair: Defining Justice for the Crime of Ecocide,” chaired by Xuchen Zhang.

Her paper explores how the mental element of ecocide could be framed within the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, arguing that the current standard is too narrow to capture large-scale environmental destruction.

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📆 31 October 2025

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