Editors
Ivano Alogna
is the Arthur Watts Research Fellow in Environmental and Climate Change Law at biicl and a PhD candidate at the Sorbonne Law School, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a member of the World Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (iucn) and of its Climate Change Specialist Group, as well as an Expert of the ‘Environmental Law and Policy’ Commission, iucn French Committee. He was the General Rapporteur of the Project ‘Global Pact for the Environment’ and is a licensed Attorney-at-Law at the Bars of Milan and Madrid. Ivano lectures in global environmental law (Paris 1), climate change law, environmental liability (ucly and uco), private law (Paris 2) and comparative law.
Christine Bakker
is a Visiting Lecturer at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa and a Visiting Research Fellow at biicl. Christine holds a PhD in Public International Law from the European University Institute, Florence, and her main areas of research are human rights law including children’s rights, international environmental law and climate change. She has published widely in these fields. Previously, she was Adjunct Professor at luiss University, Rome, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Rome-3, Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and she has worked at the European Commission (dg Development).
Jean-Pierre Gauci
is the Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and Director of Teaching and Training at biicl and co-founder and Co-Director of The People for Change Foundation, a Malta-based human rights organization. He is a Visiting Lecturer in International Migration Law at the University of Malta. His research interests span migration and refugee law, human trafficking law and policy, climate change and the law of the sea. Jean-Pierre holds a PhD from King’s College London and a Doctor of Laws and Magister Juris in International Law from the University of Malta.
Sam Adelman
is a Reader in the Law School at the University of Warwick. He was a student leader and a social justice activist during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. His recent publications cover issues including climate change, climate justice, international environmental law, human rights and development. He is a Research Associate at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa and has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Rosario in Colombia. He is a British Academy Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow 2020–21.
Julian Aguon
is a human rights lawyer and the founder of Blue Ocean Law, a progressive law firm working across Oceania on indigenous rights and environmental justice. He is a Lecturer in Law at the William S Richardson School of Law (University of Hawaii-Mānoa), where he teaches Pacific Islands Legal Systems. He also serves on the Global Advisory Council of Progressive International—a bold new initiative to mobilize people all over the world around a shared vision of global justice.
Jelena Aparac
holds a PhD in Public International Law. Her dissertation focused on ‘International criminal liability of corporations for international crimes committed in non-international armed conflicts’. She also holds an llm from the Geneva Academy. Dr Aparac has given lectures and conferences at academic institutions around the world and has contributed as an independent expert to various intergovernmental discussions on issues related to international peace and security. As a field worker and Legal Advisor for Médecins sans Frontières, Dr Aparac worked in conflict areas such as South Sudan, Chad/Darfur, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic.
Caio Borges
coordinates the Law and Climate Program at the Institute for Climate and Society (iCS). He holds a Master’s degree in Law and Development from the School of Law of São Paulo at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (fgv-sp), and a PhD in Philosophy and the General Theory of Law from the University of São Paulo (usp). He was the Coordinator of the programmes on Companies and Human Rights, and Development and Socio-environmental Rights (2014–19) at Conectas Human Rights. He is a Non-Resident Fellow of the Center for brics Studies at the Fudan University (China) and of the Centre for African,
Robert Carnwath
Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill, Kt, cvo, pc is a former British Supreme Court judge and an Associate Member of Landmark Chambers. Lord Carnwath is an Honorary Professor of Law at ucl, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Lord Carnwath is Honorary President of the UK Environmental Law Association, and of the Planning and Environmental Bar Association. He has also taken an active role in promoting knowledge of environment law worldwide (working with organizations such as UN Environment and the Asian Development Bank), and has participated in numerous judicial conferences in different parts of the world. In 2005, he was joint founder, and first Secretary-General, of the EU Forum of Judges for the Environment (eufje).
Monica Feria-Tinta
is a Barrister at the Bar of England and Wales, practising from Twenty Essex. She is a specialist in public international law and regularly acts for Sovereign States, governments, corporate bodies, non-governmental organizations and individuals in contentious and advisory proceedings, across the full spectrum of international law. Monica has acted/advised on cases before the International Court of Justice, Court of Appeal, Permanent Court of Arbitration, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, UN organs and regional courts, icsid, uncitral, scc and siac tribunals, UN Special Rapporteurships and diplomatic fora. She is Counsel in several climate change cases, including the Torres Strait Islanders case before the UN Human Rights Committee, dubbed a ‘world-first climate change human rights case’. She is a Partner Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and member of iucn. She holds an llm (lse) and the Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law.
Tracy-Lynn Field
is a Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand. She teaches several courses on environmental and sustainability law. Her research focuses on the comparative governance of sustainability and development in the mining industry, and the governance of climate change. She is the holder of an nrf grant from the Competitive Rated Researchers Fund entitled: ‘Re-imagining mining governance and regulation for a post-extractivist age’. She chairs the Research Committee of the iucn Academy of Law, a global network
Michael B Gerrard
is Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, and founder and Faculty Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He is a member and former chair of the faculty of the Columbia Earth Institute, and of the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources. From 1979 through 2008, he practised environmental law full-time in New York, most recently as partner in charge of the New York office of Arnold & Porter, handling litigation, transactions and regulatory compliance. He is author or editor of 13 books on environmental law.
Ingrid Gubbay
is a litigator and campaign lawyer with 25 years’ experience and heads the hr & Environmental team at Hausfeld. She conducts strategic public/private law litigation and advice, both domestically and internationally, on behalf of communities affected by large-scale corporate violations. She is an active member of the Global Climate Litigation network, a Trustee of Legal Action Network (law) which works to bring legal accountability for women living in conflict zones, and a frequent commentator on legal innovations in the field of Business and Human rights. She regularly acts for a wide range of organizations, including wwf, Avaaz, Client Earth, climate activists and campaigners in the area of gender justice.
James Harrison
is Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. His research interests include international environmental law and the international law of the sea, as well as how these international rules influence the evolution of national and sub-national environmental law. He has published widely on these topics and he regularly provides advice and consultancy to governments and non-governmental organizations on related issues.
Julie Hunter
is a human rights lawyer working at the intersection of environmental justice and human rights. She has worked for Blue Ocean Law since 2013 on projects related to deep sea mining, self-determination, and nuclear justice in the Pacific, and has published numerous influential reports and articles on these topics. Julie holds a JD from Yale Law School, an MSc from lse and a BA from Harvard College.
is Scientific Director of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, and Acting Head of the Department of Foreign Constitutional, Administrative, Criminal and International Law. He is a Professor and Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation.
Ruth Keating
is a Barrister at 39 Essex Chambers. She has been called to the Bar of England and Wales and the Bar of Ireland. She has a broad practice across various areas of law with a particular interest in environmental and energy law. Ruth was a Judicial Assistant to Lady Arden and Lord Kitchin at the Supreme Court from 2018–19. During this time, she assisted on cases of the United Kingdom Supreme Court and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Before coming to the Bar, Ruth was a Research Assistant at the Law Commission of England and Wales.
Guilherme JS Leal
is an Environmental and Climate lawyer in Brazil. He is founding partner of Graça Couto Advogados. He holds an llm in Energy Law from UCL, an llm in Environmental Law from George Washington University, and a specialist diploma in Environmental Law and a Bachelor of Laws from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He coordinates an extension course on ‘Environmental Law and Climate Change’ at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and is an Adjunct Professor in postgraduate programmes offered by that same institution.
Nema Milaninia
is an international lawyer who has worked and written on issues concerning international criminal law for over ten years. He is currently an advisory board member for the Center for Climate Crime Analysis, a non-profit organization of prosecutors and law enforcement professionals designed to support and scale up judicial climate action worldwide, and an attorney in Google’s regulatory and government investigations team. He previously worked as a Trial Lawyer at the International Criminal Court and as an Appeals Counsel at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Birsha Ohdedar
is Lecturer at the School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. His current work focuses on climate justice, water and human rights. Birsha obtained his PhD in Law from soas, University of London on the topic of the human right to water in India. He is on the editorial board of the Law,
Nigel Pleming
is Queen’s Counsel at 39 Essex Chambers. He practises mainly in England and Wales, but also in Hong Kong, Belize and the Caribbean. He is consistently noted in the legal directories. In the Legal 500, he is recommended in the areas of Environment Law, Administrative and Public law, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Regulatory Law and Tax law. He has acted in some of the most notable cases, including Bancoult and Heathrow Third Runway.
Tianbao Qin
is a Changjiang (Cheung Kong) Scholar. He is the Luojia Professor of Law at Wuhan University, where he serves in a number of capacities, including as the Director of the Research Institute of Environmental Law (riel); the Associate Dean for Research and International Affiliations for the School of Law; the Deputy Director of the Research Center of the Supreme Court of China on Environmental-related Cases; and as a Professor of the China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies, and of the the European Studies Centre. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law and a member of the Compliance Committee of the Nagoya Protocol on abs.
Annalisa Savaresi
is Associate Professor in International Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland, and Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at the University of Stirling. Annalisa is a renowned expert in climate change law and on the interplay between human rights and climate change law, with 20 years’ experience working with international and nongovernmental organizations. Before embarking on an academic career, she worked with non-governmental organizations and think tanks, focusing on human rights-based approaches to environmental protection. She is Associate Editor of the Review of European, Comparative and International Law and currently serves as Director for Europe for the Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment. She is a member of the iucn World Commission on Environmental Law and of the Women’s Energy and Climate Law Network.
Laura Schuijers
is a Research Fellow at Melbourne Law School, focusing on the interplay between law and other social and scientific disciplines. She holds a PhD,
Joana Setzer
is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at lse. Her main areas of expertise are climate litigation and global environmental governance. She leads the Grantham Research Institute’s Climate Change Laws of the World project—the most comprehensive global resource on climate policy, legislation and litigation. Joana is currently serving as a Contributing Author for Working Group 3 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Review (ipcc AR6). She regularly advises a range of international, governments and non-governmental organizations.
Patrick Thieffry
is an independent arbitrator, mainly in environmental, energy, construction and infrastructure matters. A member of the Paris and New York Bars, he practised international business law for four decades, with a wide experience of international transactions and transnational disputes. He has acted as Counsel, Sole Arbitrator and President of Arbitral Tribunals since the 1980s in the EU, the US and the Middle East. He was a co-chair of the icc Task Force on Arbitration of Climate Change-related Disputes, and Head of the icc Working Group on the Global Pact for the Environment. Former Associate Professor at the Sorbonne Law School, he has been teaching Environmental Law since 1996. He has authored numerous books and articles on European environmental law, international business law, and climate change law.
Marta Torre-Schaub
is a lawyer specialized in climate change law from a wide and pluridisciplinary prospect. She is a Senior Professor and Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (cnrs) at the Paris 1-Sorbonne University and Director of the Climate Change and Law Network for Researchers (climalex). She teaches environmental law on the Master of Environmental Law and Sustainable Development course at Paris 1-Sorbonne University and at Sciences Po Paris Business School. She leads a number of projects, including
Harro van Asselt
is Professor of Climate Law and Policy with the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL) at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), and a Visiting Researcher with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. He has published extensively on climate change law, and trade and environment interactions. He is the author of The Fragmentation of Global Climate Governance (Edward Elgar 2014), and recently co-edited Governing Climate Change (CUP 2018) and The Politics of Fossil Fuel Susbsidies and Their Reform (CUP 2018). He is also Editor of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (reciel).
Claus Wenzler
is an Associate at Hausfeld’s London Office. Claus supports the Human Rights and Environment practice at the firm and was part of the team working on the communication filed with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child on behalf of 16 youth petitioners, including teenage activist Greta Thunberg, in respect of children’s rights violations caused by climate change. He has been a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, conducting research primarily in the field of the laws of war and legal theory.
Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh
is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Leiden University), an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at the Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (University of the South Pacific) and an Attorney with Blue Ocean Law. She has advised on or intervened in climate cases in Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, and published extensively on climate change, environmental law and human rights. She serves as the Deputy Director for Europe of the Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment.
is a senior member of Garden Court Chambers specializing in planning and environmental law; public and administrative law; human rights and discrimination. His environmental law practice is extensive and includes work within the United Kingdom and Europe. He regularly acts for ngos and campaigners in challenges to legislation and policy, including those relating to fracking and climate change. He also represents campaigners challenging the grant of planning permission for development that has an impact on the environment. Notably, he represented Mr Frackman in his high-profile judicial review challenge of the government’s decision to grant Cuadrilla planning permission for fracking in Lancashire.
Margaret A Young
is Professor and Director of Studies in Environmental Law, and Co-Director of Studies in Dispute Resolution at Melbourne Law School. Previously, she was the inaugural Research Fellow in Public International Law at Pembroke College and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. She has been Visiting Professor at the State University of St Petersburg and Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School. She is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and served as Associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. Professor Young holds a PhD and an llm (First class) from the University of Cambridge and a ba/llb (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.
Chen Zhou
is Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the Law School of Xiamen University. Her research interests include climate and energy laws, sustainable development policies and laws, and China’s environmental law. She holds a PhD from the Law School of Tilburg University (the Netherlands), funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council (csc), and an llm from the Law School of Wuhan University, Research Institute of Environmental Law (riel). She is a member of the Board of Governors of the International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL), Secretary of the International Environmental Law Commission of the Chinese Environmental Law Association, and a member of the Environmental Law Review Editors Committee and of the China European Law Association.