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Tort Report 2022 - Harvard Law School - Systemic Justice Project

Description/Summary:

Climate change and the climate disasters that ensue have a gendered effect on impacted communities. Though the causal chain may not be readily apparent, this project tells a story of how climate disasters produce situations that increase the risk that already vulnerable individuals will be subjected to rising gender-based violence. This effect is analyzed through the lens of specific case studies (floods in Malawi, Hurricane Katrina, and drought in Ethiopia) and through a broader lens that looks at systemic forces. Each case study emphasizes a different manifestation of disaster and the forms of gender-based violence that can arise. Next, the focus shifts to the inadequacy of tort law and current stories about human disposition to address the issue on a systemic level. The report concludes with thoughts on how we move forward as people across the globe face increasingly frequent and severe climate disasters.

Interviewees:

Sasha Drobnick: Appellate Litigation Director, Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP), a project of the Network for Victim Recovery of DC (NVRDC)
Professor Marcy Karin: Jack and Lovell Olender Professor of Law & Director of the Legislation Clinic, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
Professor Nancy Wonders: Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University

Thanks:

We would like to extend our gratitude first and foremost to our interviewees who generously gave their time to speak with us and share their work at the forefront of advocacy and scholarship on the topic. We would also like to thank the teaching team and our fellow classmates for their helpful feedback on our video.