Short essay published open access in American Journal of International Law Unbound titled “Strategic Litigation of Environmental Business and Human Rights Violations: The Case of the Solai Dam Tragedy.”
This essay uses the strategic litigation of the Solai Dam Tragedy in Kenya as a case study to analyze the challenges of addressing environmental business and human rights violations in court proceedings.
In 2018, an illegally and irregularly constructed man-made dam located in Solai, Nakuru County in Kenya broke its banks at around 7:15 p.m., gushing out 190 million liters of water through settlements, leaving in its wake gruesome deaths, horrible injuries (physical, mental, and emotional), massive destruction of property, and unprecedented displacement of people. What followed was a series of law suits and an arduous quest for justice.