Gerry Liston

Gerry Liston is a Senior Lawyer with GLAN. He oversees our work on climate change litigation and developed and led the ground-breaking Youth4ClimateJustice case against 32 States before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Currently, his work in this area involves pursuing or supporting climate cases, which are ongoing or under development, before both the EU’s courts and a number of domestic courts.

Gerry’s work also focuses significantly on the application of proceeds of crime and anti-money laundering legislation to investments and other commercial activities linked to serious environmental or human rights abuses. Most recently in this area, he led the filing of a complaint to Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau against the Irish sovereign wealth fund, in relation to investments it holds in companies operating in Israel’s settlements illegally established on occupied Palestinian territory.

Gerry has also supported the drafting of and advocacy around several Private Members' Bills in the Oireachtas (Irish parliament). These include the Occupied Territories Bill to prohibit trade with settlements illegally established on occupied territories and the Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill which, when enacted, became the first piece of legislation in the world to require a sovereign wealth fund to divest from fossil fuel companies and resulted in divestments from 38 companies.

Gerry is a qualified solicitor in Ireland and holds an LLM from the Irish Centre for Human Rights.