WILD LAW - Key Persons
Cormac, author of Wild Law (the book), is the founder and managing director of the Wild Law Institute.
Job Titles:
- Elder
- Member of the Ancestors and Elders Team
Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, philosopher, environmental activist and eco feminist.
Job Titles:
- Non - Executive Director
- Founder and Director of Bodhi Khaya Retreat
Georgina is the founder and director of Bodhi Khaya Retreat, a school for earth studies, Zen, bio-diversity and soil regeneration.
A journalist and historian, Georgina is drawn to explore the liminal spaces between wilderness and agriculture; ownership and stewardship; biodiversity and monoculture; extraction and regeneration. During a masters degree at SOAS ( School of Oriental and African Studies) she focused on land ownership and the agrarian economy in South Africa around the time of the Land Act of 1913.
In the 1980's she was a researcher at the African Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand and helped to collect and collate oral histories of black farmers in Gauteng. Later, through her work with the Black Sash, journalism, and colleagues at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, she found opportunities to further explore issues relating to agriculture and conservation, especially in areas where rights to land and natural resources were contested.
In South Africa there has been considerable research and experimentation, especially in prized conservation areas, to discover and adopt ways of creating livelihoods that blend with and enhance conservation through resource management and tourism. There have been some success stories but Georgina believes we need to be much more courageously imaginative to protect people and the wild from extractive behavior. Wild Law is just such an expression of the imagination. It asks that we stretch conventional ideas of who we are to enter a realm that fully recognises the majesty and grace of our rivers and mountains and all beings.
Job Titles:
- Non - Executive Director
- Judge of the High Court, Chairman
- Judge of the High Court, Chairman of the World Bank Sanctions Board
John Murphy is a Judge of the High Court, Chairman of the World Bank Sanctions Board and a Judge of Appeal at the United Nations Appeals Tribunal.
Judge Murphy was the ninth President of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal (January 2018 to December 2018). He is a Judge of the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Division, Pretoria), Chairman of the World Bank Sanctions Board and a Judge of Appeal at the United Nations Appeals Tribunal.
He has also served as a Judge in the Labour Court and was South Africa's first Pension Ombudsman (the Pension Funds Adjudicator) between 1997 and 2003. Prior to that Judge Murphy worked as a labour arbitrator and mediator for the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration and the Independent Mediation Service of South Africa and also as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Public Law at the University of the Western Cape. He has served on various statutory bodies, including the Council for Medical Schemes. In 2003-2004 he was the Presiding Judge in the Special Chamber of the Kosovo Supreme Court for Kosovo Trust Related Matters.
Katrina is a passionate campaigner and researcher for environmental and climate justice.