Professor Milena Sterio has been selected as a member of the International Law Association‘s newly established Rights of Nature Committee, as a representative of the American Branch of the International Law Association. In this capacity, Professor Sterio will collaborate with ILA colleagues on the development of the Committee’s inaugural report which will be issued in March 2025.

Professor Sterio also has been nominated and elected a member of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs for a three-year term starting in 2025. The CCWA was founded in 1923 to foster greater understanding of world affairs amongst citizens of Cleveland, with the notion that better international understanding would help promote world peace. Its mission is to promote engagement in international affairs and world cultures through education, citizen diplomacy and public dialogue.