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Environmental Law Journal becomes part of Scielo Chile
The publication edited by the Environmental Law Center will be part of an open access collection of Chilean scientific journals in all areas of knowledge.
The Environmental Law Journal, edited by the Environmental Law Center of the Law School of the University of Chile, was admitted to be part of the SciELO - Chile Scientific Electronic Library.
SciELO - Chile is an open access collection of texts from Chilean scientific journals, from all areas of knowledge, which predominantly publish articles resulting from scientific research, and which uses peer review of the manuscripts they receive, which show a growing performance in the indicators of compliance with the indexing criteria.
"We are very pleased with this recognition, which is the result of an effort of continuous improvement of the editorial processes developed by the editorial team, which has resulted in the growing increase in the quality of the articles published over the years," said the director of the Journal, Prof. Valentina Durán Medina, adding "we are grateful for the support of the Faculty, which through its Dean, Prof. Pablo Ruiz-Tagle, and the Journals Program of the Research Department, headed by Prof. Daniel Álvarez, has provided permanent support to the work of the journal."
"Once the collaboration agreement between the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile and the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) is signed, the full incorporation of the journal to this collection will take place, starting in 2022" explained the editor Jorge Ossandón Rosales.
This good news is in addition to the admission, in 2020, of the Environmental Law Journal to the SCOPUS database.
As a result, in 2022 the Environmental Law Journal will already be indexed in Scopus, Redib, DOAJ and Latindex, in addition to ScIELO, with the support of SISIB and the Journals Program of the Research Department of the Law School of the Universidad of Chile.
It should be noted that Issue 16 of this biannual journal will be published on December 31.
The inclusion of ecocide to the Rome Statute: A new tool to combat the climate crisis?
Authors
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María Teresa González Hernández
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7875-5070
Abstract
The damage inflicted on ecosystems requires more legal tools that contribute to compliance with the treaties that protect the environment. One of these tools is criminal law through the criminalization of ecocide at international level. Several voices have proposed amending the Rome Statute to extend the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ecocide, considering it a crime against peace, security and the welfare of mankind. Unlike the four crimes currently under the Court's mandate, the new one would not have an anthropocentric approach, but would instead have the environment at the center of international criminal justice. The current legal framework allows the ICC to prosecute environmental damage as an extension of war crimes, which is insufficient when the damage is not linked to war. This paper proposes that including ecocide in the Rome Statute would allow the ICC to investigate cases linked to the climate crisis in which individuals have been
Keywords:
Ecocide, Rome Statute, International environmental crimes, International Criminal Court, Climate changeReferences
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