Manuel Castañón del Valle

Manuel Castañón del Valle is SOIF’s Senior Long-Term Governance Legal Advisor. A Spanish lawyer specialising in environmental law since 1995, he has developed a legal doctrine on the rights of future generations, and supports SOIF’s work on legal frameworks for future generations legislation, with a particular focus on Latin America. Manuel has directed the Environmental Law Department of the Seville Bar Association (Spain) since 2000 and is the European Union representative of the World League of Environmental Lawyers.

He is a member of the legal experts group of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and has worked with the UNEP Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, which published one of his books, La valoración del daño ambiental (The Valuation of Environmental Damage). He took part in the research and the adoption conference of the Maastricht Principles on the Human Rights of Future Generations, and teaches at universities and institutions across Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. He was awarded the Medal for Academic Merit by the Faculty of Law of UNAM (Mexico). He is the author of several books and numerous scholarly articles on the protection and defence of future generations, and the founder of righttoafuture.org. He chairs Fundación Generaciones Futuras (Future Generations Foundation), a foundation based in Spain.