Impact with Professional Support

Legal Voices for the Future presents its February 2026 Knowledge Session on Exploring Legal Systems Change, led by LVF member Vicky Vanderstichele.
In this session, the speaker will be exploring what it could take for the legal structures which underpin our current economic, social and political system to change. The session will be very interactive, encouraging all participants to rethink the polycrisis facing us today.  

 The first part of the knowledge session (presentation) will be available to join online. The rest of the session will be an in person interactive workshop and will not be available to our online audience, so if you would like to participate in the workshop please do attend in person! Online joining details (Teams / Zoom link) will be provided to attendees in advance of the event.  

This free webinar from International Bar Association will be launching a Nature-Intelligent Legal Services Toolkit, co-authored by LSA Working Group lead and nature lawyer Jenni Ramos, with sectoral nature exposure methodology devised by Nature Positive.
A panel of fantastic speakers will explore how the toolkit can enhance client services and how clients can benefit from their lawyers using it.

How can you use complaints, appeals processes and the courts to protect the environment?

Public law provides various ways to challenge or influence Government decision making, from local authority planning decisions, to complaints to environmental regulators, and full blown court cases through judicial review challenging Government policy implementation. This is a beginners’ guide to these processes, and how they can work as parts of a campaign.

Speakers

• Chair: Alex Shattock, Landmark Chambers
• Dr Naomi Luhde-Thompson, Oxford Brookes University and CEO of Rights Community Action
• Joe Hayden, Office for Environmental Protection
• Natasha Jackson, Landmark Chambers
• Emma Dearnaley, River Action UK

A webinar launching the Human Rights and Environment Explorer – a new tool that lets you search across human rights treaty body commentary and human rights case law, giving you an overview of the environmental dimensions of human rights and the related obligations of States. 

Whether you are an advocate looking to understand children’s rights to clean air, a legal scholar exploring the right to a healthy environment, or a lawyer searching for legal sources on Indigenous Peoples’ right to participate in climate action, you need to find the best legal arguments and evidence on what States are obligated to do according to their human rights commitments. 

This is an online event organised by the Legal Sustainability Alliance.

Unsure about where to start with your carbon footprint? Where to find the data? How to engage colleagues? This event will be a Q&A session for small and medium-sized firms, packed full of practical advice from carbon experts and legal professionals who have already navigated carbon counting. 

The International Court of Justice recently issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change-but what does it actually mean for American lawyers and U.S. law? Join the American Bar Association for a practical discussion that cuts through the headlines to explore the real implications. In webinar format. * Useful for non-US lawyers too! *

Hosted by No5 Barristers’ Chambers, speakers from The Office for Environmental Protection including Robert Dennis and David Hampson (Principal Lawyer), will be joining UKELA West Midlands to provide a topical insight into current initiatives. 

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