Juan Auz

Juan Auz is a postdoc researcher for the TransLitigate project at Tilburg University’s Law School, where he examines socio-legal aspects of transnational environmental litigation, focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean. Juan has worked for years in Ecuador on indigenous peoples’ rights in Amazonia as co-founder of Terra Mater and executive director of Fundación Pachamama.

Book Review
Symposium
The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law

From the Pathology of Plenty to Carbon Metastasis

Lys Kulamadayil's The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law (TPP) offers a fundamental reconstruction of how international law is constitutive of – rather than merely responsive to – the...

Symposium
Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

The Legal Consequences of Climate Harm

The advisory opinions recently issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) offer significant legal guidance on states' climate-related obligations and the...

Article

Precaution as Obligation?

On March 14, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) made public a landmark ruling holding Ecuador internationally responsible for the violation of various rights of the Tagaeri and...

Symposium
Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities – Second Season

Global South climate litigation versus climate justice: duty of international cooperation as a remedy?

Imagine for a moment that you are a Bolivian small farmer whose livelihood depends on the continuing flow of a river to water your crops. Now, due to climate change,...