The Climate Law Accelerator (CLX) is an initiative of the Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Program at New York University School of Law.
CLX is a global collaborative hub for research, advocacy, and strategic litigation on the climate emergency. Working with scholars, activists, and litigants from around the world, CLX initiates and supports efforts that build the speed and scale necessary to spur action on the climate emergency within the limited timeframe left to avoid triggering extreme scenarios of global warming.
CLX helps fill gaps in existing practice, connects litigants and experts in different fields (from climate science to strategic communications to ecology to climate economics), and spearheads and supports climate lawsuits and other forms of advocacy.
Team
Ashley Otilia Nemeth
Litigation AssociateAshley Otilia Nemeth
Litigation AssociateAshley is a litigation associate at CLX, where she co-leads CLX’s Loss and Damage Hub alongside César Rodríguez-Garavito.
Ashley has worked on a broad set of issues, including climate science, climate change litigation, climate funding negotiations, human rights litigation, and the rights of nature. Ashley holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law (cum laude), where she was awarded the International Human Rights Convocation Award, the LACA Kim Barry ’98 Memorial Convocation Award for Human Rights, and the Edmond Cahn Law Review Convocation Award. Ashley also holds an M.S in Entrepreneurship (cum laude) and a B.S. in Accounting (cum laude) from the University of Florida.
Prior to joining CLX, Ashley was an associate in White & Case’s International Arbitration Group, working with foreign sovereigns and private companies to resolve complex disputes before investor-state and commercial arbitration tribunals.
César Rodríguez-Garavito
Director and Professor of Clinical LawCésar Rodríguez-Garavito
Director and Professor of Clinical LawCésar Rodríguez-Garavito is Professor of Clinical Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. He is the founding director of the Climate Law Accelerator (CLX), Earth Rights Research & Action (TERRA) Advocacy Clinic, the Future of Rights and Governance (FORGE) Program, and the More Than Human Rights (MOTH) project at NYU Law. Professor Rodríguez-Garavito is a human rights and environmental justice scholar and practitioner whose work focuses on global governance, climate change, socioeconomic rights, business and human rights, Indigenous peoples’ rights, and the human rights movement.
Jacqueline Gallant
Litigation AssociateJacqueline Gallant
Litigation AssociateJackie Gallant is a Litigation Associate at CLX, where she works on projects addressing the climate emergency and its implications for rights protection.
Acting as a generalist in the field, she has worked on a broad set of issues, including rights-based climate litigation, the rights of nature, youth climate activism, the right to a healthy environment, and rights-based biodiversity litigation. Jackie holds a JD (cum laude) from NYU School of Law and a BA (magna cum laude) in International Relations from Brown University.
Melina De Bona
Litigation AssociateMelina De Bona
Litigation AssociateMelina De Bona is a Litigation Associate at CLX, where she focuses on corporate accountability in the Latin America and Caribbean region.
Melina has also worked on a broad set of issues, including rights-based climate litigation, the rights of nature, and the right to a healthy environment. Melina holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Chicago.
Prior to joining CLX, she spent a year working for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, specializing in international arbitration, white-collar crime investigations, and sustainability.
CLX’s team is based at NYU and other locations. The team works closely with partners across the Global South and North.