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Access to Justice Observatory: Accessing Justice at EU and National Level EJNI’s Access to Justice Observatory project has the object of screening legislative developments at EU and national level for compliance with the access to justice requirements of the Aarhus Convention.
Rights and Nature: Research
Linking the Irish Environment: The aim of the ‘Linking the Irish Environment’ project is to examine how to enable the environment sector across the island of Ireland to cooperate and engage on an all-island and cross-border basis to deal with shared environmental challenges, risks, and opportunities.

James Orr

James Orr has an academic background in law, town planning and leadership. He is the Director of Friends of the Earth in Northern Ireland. In his previous career he worked in local government and was also for many years the Northern Ireland Director for the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. His current areas of interest are the dynamics of movement building and supporting communities who are suffering from environmental injustice. An emerging area of professional and personal interest is challenging the current legal basis of environmental protection and affording Nature its own inalienable Rights to evolve, flourish and regenerate.

James Orr