Sorbonne Work in Progress Lunchtime Seminar

Par Simona Grossi (intervenante), Par Simona Grossi (intervenante), Professor of Law & Theodore A. Bruinsma Fellow at the LMU Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

Avec Emma Bursztejn (discutante), Doctorante à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (IREDIES)
 

The Due Process Deficit: Environmental Justice between U.S. Supreme Court Precedent and Supranational Judicial Dialogue

Vendredi 23 octobre 2026
12h – 14h
Salle 13 (Salle des séminaires) du centre Lourcine et sur Zoom

Issue

The conventional account treats the U.S. Supreme Court's environmental jurisprudence as a story of passivity – of rights simply left undeveloped. This lecture argues the opposite: the Court has actively constructed, through the doctrinal vocabulary of due process, a constitutional architecture that renders environmental justice claims structurally unavailable. The argument proceeds along four axes – substantive due process, justiciability, procedural protection, and the structural dismantling of the administrative state – and then situates the resulting "due process deficit" against the emerging transnational jurisprudence of environmental rights, from Klima Seniorinnen and Urgenda to Held v. Montana and the Inter-American system, where courts applying the same fundamental due process logic have reached profoundly different conclusions about what constitutional government owes its citizens in conditions of existential ecological risk.

Pr. Simona Grossi biography 

Simona Grossi graduated from LUISS University, Rome, Italy in 2002. She completed her master's degree (LL.M.) and doctoral program (J.S.D.) at UC Berkeley, School of Law. She worked for the U.N. from 2000 to 2002 and then went into private practice and worked for Clifford Chance LLP and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo doing national and transnational litigation from 2002 to 2008. She worked for Judge Charles Breyer at the USDC for the Northern District of California in 2010. Professor Grossi joined LMU Loyola Law School in 2010. She was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI) in 2011, and she is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL). Her scholarship focuses on civil procedure, constitutional law, and federal courts. Professor Grossi is also a fiction writer, a pianist, a conductor, and the Music Director of the LLS Orchestra, an orchestra of about 100 members, professionals and highly talented musicians, which she founded in 2020.

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