César Rodríguez Garavito

César Rodríguez-Garavito (born in Colombia, 1971) is an Earth rights and human rights scholar and field lawyer. He is a Professor of Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law. Rodríguez-Garavito is the founding director of the NYU More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program and NYU Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA).

A lawyer and sociologist by training, Rodríguez-Garavito is the author of numerous books and articles on more-than-human (MOTH) rights, climate change litigation, the human rights movement, socio-environmental conflicts, Indigenous rights, and business and human rights. He has served as an Adjunct Judge of the Constitutional Court of Colombia, an expert witness of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and a litigator in prominent climate change, Indigenous rights, and socioeconomic rights cases. He is also a member of the Science Panel for the Amazon, an expert group of distinguished scientists, Indigenous leaders, scholars, and others that assesses the state of the Amazon and issues evidence-based findings and recommendations.