Launch of Society for Earth Law
September 2025: We are pleased to announce that the Society for Earth Law (SOEL) has become an Operating Division of CES.
Herman Greene will continue to be the overall President of CES; Linda Wendling will serve as Executive Director of SOEL; and Simon Spire will serve as Executive Director of the existing CES division. Both Linda and Simon are currently members of the Board of Directors of CES.
SOEL is a new international coalition of lawyers, law students, educators, scientists, and advocates that has been one year in the making. It will formally launch during Climate Week NYC, on September 24, 2025, from 1:30 to 3:00 PM EDT, at the Works on Water 2025 Triennial Exhibition taking place in the LMCC Arts Center on Governors Island, New York City. The event is free and open to the public. It may also be livestreamed for free on YouTube/@SocietyforEarthLaw.
Please register for either the in-person event or the livestream atSOEL’s Eventbrite page. At SOEL’s Launch, its new leaders will be inducted and charged with carrying SOEL’s vision to the world.
Featured speakers include:
> Karenna Gore – Center for Earth Ethics
> Natalia Greene – Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
> Grant Wilson, Executive Director, and Missy Lahren, Chair of the Board – Earth Law Center
> Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim – Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology.
> Sarah Cameron Sunde – Artist and Works on Water co-founder. She will discuss the multi-sited exhibition and series of public art interventions at the Arts Center, which were made on, in, and with bodies of water and created in response to the global climate crisis.
In addition, co-founders of SOEL, Herman Greene, Linda Wendling, and others, will present their plans for this venture.
Additional information concerning the Launch of SOEL, including logistics for people who will attend in person, is available here.
The last part of Thomas Berry’s life was spent on the development of Earth jurisprudence and SOEL has grown out of his work. See the “Call for an Earth Law Society,” the “SOEL Statement of Mission and Purpose,” and the SOEL website.
Please contact Linda Wendling at l.wendling@ecozoicstudies.org with any questions you have about the SOEL launch or participation in the work of SOEL.