Profile of Invited Expert “Robinson”

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Full Name

Darryl Robinson, LL.B, LL.M, Ph.D.

Position

Professor

Organization

Queen’s University Faculty of Law

URL

https://law.queensu.ca/directory/darryl-robinson

Biography

Darryl Robinson is a Professor at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law. As a Canadian diplomat, he was involved in the negotiation of the Statute of the International Criminal Court. Since 2020, he has worked on the proposed new crime of ecocide. He was a member of a UCLA Promise Institute for Human Rights group of experts on the definition of ecocide, and is a member of the Ecocide Law Advisory, assisting national legislators on strengthening environmental criminal law. He has received the Antonio Cassese Prize for International Criminal Legal Studies and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

Selected Citations to Published Materials

Darryl Robinson, Ecocide—Puzzles and Possibilities, 20 J. Int’l Crim. Just. 313 (2022), available online.
Darryl Robinson, Humans Matter Too: A Misanthropic Misunderstanding of “Ecocentrism” is Derailing the Ecocide Debate, Int’l J. of Hum. Rts. (forthcoming 2026), earlier version (Oct. 2025) available online, doi.

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park2026: Criminalizing Ecocide: Will Corporations Change? Introduction As climate change accelerates and ecosystems face unprecedented destruction, existing legal frameworks have proven inadequate to prevent or meaningfully deter large-scale environmental harm. Corporations, especially transnational corporations operating across jurisdictions, play a central role in driving deforestation, pollution, biodiversity loss, and greenhouse gas emissions, often... (more)
Wangu Gatonye: I. Introduction “Ecocide” was coined in the 1970s through a proposal by Professor Arthur W. Galston, but has only recently gained popularity in legal circles.1 The proposed definition is: “[U]nlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.”2 The work that the diverse Independent... (more)
Talia Boyadjian: Why the IEPs Draft Definition of Ecocide Cannot Work as a Core Crime The concept of ecocide has circulated long before current efforts to amend the Rome Statute, with domestic and international circles debating it as a proposed legal tool to address human-caused extreme environmental destruction.1 Early formulations data back to the Vietnam War in response to large-scale wartime... (more)