Judges Assembly
The Judges of the International Rights of Nature Tribunal hearings are personalities among which many have a direct connection to or defend the threatened ecosystems that are part of their cosmology or traditional knowledge. The diversity and interdisciplinary of these panels stem from the varied backgrounds of the judges, who are eminent academics, practitioners, activists, lawyers and jurists. Here, you can explore the esteemed panels of judges from past Tribunals. They are organized according to the type of tribunal international-regional-local, and chronologically.
Collectively, these judges form the International Rights of Nature Judges Assembly, the decision-making body of the Tribunal. They collaboratively decide on future hearings, panels, and interventions of the Tribunal and provide strategic guidance to its initiatives.
Tribunal Impacts of Mining and the Post-Extractivism Era
Renowned activists and defenders of human rights and nature


Heather Milton Lightening
President / Judge

Maude Barlow
Judge

Casey Camp Horinek
Judge

Tzeporah Berman
Judge

Enrique Viale
Judge

Danii Kehler
Judge

Francesco Martone
Judge

Tom Goldtooth
Judge

Lucio Cuenca
Judge
Tribunal End of Fossil Fuels Era
Renowned activists and defenders of human rights and nature

Patricia Gualinga
President / Judge

Lennox Yearwood
Judge

Tzeporah Berman
Judge

Osprey Orielle Lake
Judge

Casey Camp Horinek
Judge

Tom Goldtooth
Judge

Shannon Biggs
Judge
Glasgow Tribunal 2021

Leonardo Boff
President of the Tribunal

Alberto Acosta
Judge

Carolyn Raffensperger
Judge

Lisa Mead
Judge

Yaku Peréz
Judge

Enrique Viale
Judge

Osprey Orielle Lake
Judge

Rocío Silva-Santisteban
Judge

Atossa Soltani
Judge

Nimmo Bassey
Judge

Nancy Yáñez
Judge

Princess Esmeralda
Judge

Pablo Solón
Earth Prosecutor

Julio Prieto
Earth Prosecutor

Natalia Greene
Secretariat
Europe Tribunal 2021

Cormac Cullinan
President of the Tribunal

Lisa Mead
Judge

Richard Falk
Judge

Valérie Cabanes
Judge

Tom Goldtooth
Judge

Rebecka Le Moine
Prosecutor

Natalia Greene
Co-Secretariat

Camille Bouko-levy
Co-Secretariat

Olivia Gervais
Co-Secretariat
Chile Tribunal 2019

Yaku Pérez Guartambel
President of the Tribunal

Alberto Acosta
Judge

Antonio Elizalde
Judge

Maristella Svampa
Judge

Nancy Yañez
Judge

Raúl David Sohr Biss
Judge

Enrique Viale
Prosecutor

Natalia Greene
Secretariat
Bonn Tribunal 2017

Tom Goldtooth
President of the Tribunal

Shannon Biggs
Judge

Osprey Orielle Lake
Judge

Cormac Cullinan
Judge

Alberto Acosta
Judge

Simona Feudatario
Judge

Fernando Pino Solanas
Judge

Ute Koczy
Judge

Ruth Nyambura
Judge

Ramiro Ávila
Prosecutor

Linda Sheehan
Prosecutor

Natalia Greene
Secretariat
Paris Tribunal 2015

Cormac Cullinan
President of the Tribunal

Tom Goldtooth
Judge

Nnimmo Bassey
Judge

Osprey Orielle Lake
Judge

Alberto Acosta
Judge

Ruth Nyambura
Judge

Philippe Desbrosses
Judge

Felicio Pontes
Judge

Terisa Turner
Judge

Atossa Soltani
Judge

Damien Short
Honorary Judge

Dominique Bourg
Honorary Judge

Ramiro Ávila
Prosecutor

Linda Sheehan
Prosecutor

Natalia Greene
Secretariat

Edgardo Lander
Secretariat Advisor

Enrique Viale
Secretariat Advisor

Thomas Coutrot
Secretariat Advisor
Lima Tribunal 2014

Alberto Acosta
President of the Tribunal

Tom Goldtooth
Judge

Raúl Prada Alcoreza
Judge

Hugo Blanco
Judge

Tantoo Cardinal
Judge

François Houtart
Judge

Blanca Chancoso
Judge

Osprey Orielle Lake
Judge

Veronika Mendoza
Judge

Edgardo Lander
Judge

Atossa Soltani
Judge

Rocío Silva Santisteban
Judge

Terisa Turner
Judge

Ramiro Ávila
Prosecutor

Natalia Greene
Secretariat
Tipnis Tribunal 2014

Antoni Pigrau
Judge

Arturo Escobar
Judge

Ashish Kothari
Judge

Casey Camp Horinek
Judge

Enrique Leff
Judge

Francesco Martone
Judge

Horacio Machado Aráoz
Judge

Mario Melo
Judge

Enrique Viale
Judge

Rita Segato
Prosecutor

Blanca Chancoso
Judge

Julio César Trujillo
Judge

Cormac Cullinan
Judge

Enrique Viale
Judge

Ramiro Ávila
Prosecutor

Natalia Greene
Secretariat
Regional Tribunals
(Chiquitanía-Bolivia, Lake Vättern-Sweden, Rio Dolce-Brazil, Yasuni-Ecuador, Great Barrier Reef-Australia, Chevron and Delta Ecosystem-San Francisco USA)

Ariruma Kowii
Judge (Yasuni)

Patricia Gualinga
Judge (Chiquitania)

George Caffenzis
Judge (Yasuni)

Steffan Mikaelsson
Judge (Vättern)

Lorenzo Muelas
Judge (Yasuní)

Anuradha Mittal
Judge (Yasuní)

Pennie Opal Plant
Judge (San Francisco Bay)

Liz Hosken
Judge (San Francisco Bay)

Tim Stroshane
Judge (San Francisco Bay)