Blog Contributors
Dr Nengye Liu is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He was educated in the School of Law, Wuhan University (China, LLB and LLM) and the Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University (Belgium, Doctor of Laws, 2012).
Paul Govind is a Lecturer at the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University Law School. He completed a BA/LLB (Hons) at Macquarie and a LLM at Sydney University focusing on distributive justice and funding for climate change adaptation. He is currently finalising his PhD on ‘Law and responsibility in the Anthropocene’ which argues that an ethic of responsibility must be underpin Western legal systems to counterbalance the proliferation of rights.
Dr Michelle Lim's interdisciplinary scholarship occurs at the intersection between biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods. Dr Lim’s work focuses on futures-oriented biodiversity law research aimed at advancing equity and sustainability under conditions of unprecedented environmental change.
Prof. Qin Tianbao is a National Changjiang (Cheung Kong) Scholar and Luojia Distinguished Professor of Law. He is the Director of the Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL), Deputy Director of the Research Centre of the Supreme Court of China on Environmental-related Judicial Theory, Professor of the China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies and the European Studies Centre, Wuhan University; Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law (Brill); Member and Vice Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Nagoya Protocol on ABS
Otto Spijkers is professor of international law at Wuhan University’s China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies as well as its Research Institute of Environmental Law, and founding staff member of its International Water Law Academy. He is managing editor of the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law. Prior to joining Wuhan University, he worked at the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law and Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea of Utrecht University, Netherlands.
Maria Antonia Tigre is the Director of Latin America for the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE). Ms. Tigre is the author and co-author of several publications on themes related to Latin American and international environmental law. She specifically focuses on issues concerning environmental rights and the reshaping of the existing framework of international environmental law.
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Peter Burdon is Deputy Dean of the Adelaide Law School and Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the Faculty of Professions. Peter's research uses interdisciplinary materials from sociology, political science, economics, philosophy, history and environmental studies. Peter is an expert in environmental theory and has written and edited books on Earth Jurisprudence and Earth Democracy.
Nischala McDonnell is a final year Bachelor of Environment with the degree of Bachelor of Laws (Honours I) student at Macquarie University. Passionate about establishing legal and ethical responsibility for climate change harms, Nischala joined CEL in 2021 as part of the Social Media Team to drive transformative change.
Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez holds a master’s degree in law (MSc) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. She is also a member of the Environmental Justice Observatory and postgraduate student (doctorate degree) at the Law Faculty of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She is currently doing a six-month research period at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Letícia Albuquerque is a professor with the Law Faculty of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is the cofounder and codirector of the Environmental Justice Observatory, a research and action group in the areas of environment and human rights linked to the graduate program in law of the Federal University of Santa Catarina.
Isabele Bruna Barbieri holds a doctor’s degree in law (PhD) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. She is a lawyer and researcher of the Environmental Justice Observatory.
Marcelo Pretto Mosmann holds a master’s degree in law (MSc) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is also a lawyer and member of the Environmental Justice Observatory.