Leadership for the
ECOZOIC
Geoffrey Garver
Law and Governance Lead – McGill University
Email: geoffrey.garver@mcgill.ca
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Dr. Geoffrey Garver teaches environmental courses at McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal and coordinates law and governance research for the Leadership for the Ecozoic program. He is on the Steering Committee of the Ecological Law and Governance Association (elgaworld.org) and is active in the international degrowth movement. Geoff completed his PhD in Geography at McGill in 2016 and has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University (1982), a JD from Michigan law School (1987) and an LLM from McGill University (2011). From 2000-2007, he was Director of Submission on Enforcement Matters at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (www.cec.org), following 13 years of public service with the US Department of Justice, the US Environmental Protection Agency and a federal District Court judge. He edited and co-authored Ecological Law in Practice: Case Studies for a Transformative Approach (Routledge 2025) and combined and updated his LLM and PhD theses in the book Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis (Routledge 2021). Geoff also co-authored Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy (Berrett Koehler 2009) and has written many other articles and book chapters. Geoff grew up in a Quaker family in Western New York and is on the Board of Trustees of the Quaker Institute for the Future.
