Our People

Deepa Badrinarayana is a professor of law at Fowler School of Law, Chapman University.  Her scholarship focuses primarily on climate change and environmental law with emphasis on historical dimensions of international law, human rights, trade, and environmental justice, areas in which she has published and delivered papers on regularly.  

Professor Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne is the Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life & the Alumni Society Professor of Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. She is a leading expert in environmental law and climate change law and policy. Carlarne’s scholarship focuses on the evolution of…

Anita is a senior lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne. She specialises in environmental and climate change law, regulation and governance and teaches environmental law and sustainability regulation in an inter-disciplinary context.

Sir Andy Haines is a Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. His current research focuses on climate change mitigation, sustainable healthy food systems and complex urban systems for sustainability. He was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2022.

Denis Kusaasira is a practicing advocate in Uganda and the Managing Partner of ABMAK Associate-Advocates and Legal Consultants, a prominent Ugandan law firm specialising in natural resources law and policy. Denis has been part of the ongoing IRAB project funded by Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account (the “ESRC…

Johannes is Managing Director of the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law and Head of Asia Operations. His work focuses on Comparative Constitutional Law, Election Law, Law of the Sea and Human Rights Law.

Petra is Professor of International Law at Durham Law School. Her scholarship encompasses the international, transnational and national perspective of climate law, and the intersection of law and science. Petra has published widely on liability in international environmental law, climate protection agreements, human rights law, the classification/status of states under…

Thomas is Co-Director of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law, based at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where he also works as a Senior Lecturer in Energy Transition Law. His teaching and research focuses most particularly on climate and energy decarbonisation law and policy. He has subsidiary and intersecting…

Friederike (Fredi) is a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London where she leads several projects understanding the impacts of man-made climate change on natural and social systems with a particular focus on Africa and India. Her main research interest is on extreme weather events (droughts, heat waves, extreme precipitation), improving and…

Nilufer Oral is a member of the United Nations International Law Commission and co-chair of the Study Group on Sea-level rise in relation to international law. She served as a legal advisor to the Turkish Foreign Ministry for law of the sea and as a climate change negotiator. Dr Oral…

Lindene Patton is a strategic advisor with deep experience in large loss litigation strategy / recovery; climate attribution; risk management; product development; corporate advocacy; compliance; real property data and analytics; specialty risks (professional liability, nuclear liability schema, cyber security liability, environment); sustainability and resilience. Her specialized expertise combines business, science, technology…

The Honourable Justice Brian J Preston is Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, Australia. Prior to his appointment, he was a Senior Counsel at the Bar, practising primarily in environmental law. From October 2022 Justice Preston will be a visiting Professor at Durham Law…

Volker Roeben is Professor of International Law and Dean at Durham Law School. Volker’s research combines energy law with public international law, European Union law and the theory of global law, with several books and numerous articles published and a research monograph on the European Energy Union with Cambridge University…

Joana Setzer is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research explores the engagement of subnational governments and the role of courts in climate governance.https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/profile/joana-setzer/

Prof Dr Rüdiger Wolfrum is Managing Director at the Max Planck Foundation, following his retirement from the University of Heidelberg.  Prof Wolfrum was Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law between 1993 and 2012. In 1996, Rüdiger Wolfrum became Judge at the International Tribunal…