Meet the Speakers: Matthew Gillet
We are excited to announce Dr. Matthew Gillett as a speaker at the upcoming International Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice in London on 31 October.
Dr. Gillett is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex Law School and a United Nations Special Mandate holder (Vice Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention). He previously served as a Prosecution Trial Attorney and Appeals Counsel at the ICC and ICTY, and is the author of the award-winning 2022 monograph Prosecuting Environmental Harm before the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press).
In his article “Human, all too Human”: The Anthropocentricization of Ecocide, he warns that defining ecocide around human interests risks undermining the ecocentric rationale for adding this new crime to the Rome Statute, which already contains extensive crimes aimed at protecting humans and their property. The piece sets out a typology of approaches and evaluates how each could contribute to the anthropocentricisation of ecocide.
He will be part of the third panel focused on Human Rights and Environmental Stewardship.
The article is available online at the International Journal of Human Rights: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2025.2545294
Join us in London to hear his insights!
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📆 31 October 2025