Environment and Sustainability

Staff Researchers

• Jyoti Ahuja’s research examines the governance of green energy transitions and circular economy for critical materials. This includes legal approaches to managing risks from technology and scientific innovations.
• Henok Asmelash's research focuses on legal and political issues at the intersection of trade, energy and the environment.
• Kate Bedford's research focuses on law and international development, and gender and political economy.
• Soibi Bob-Manuel’s research is on energy law and justice, with particular emphasis on clean energy technology regulation and intellectual property (IP) rights.
• Steven Cammiss’s most recent work focuses on the criminal trials of activists (and particularly environmental activists) and how this impacts on social movements.
• Emily Carroll's research is to do with law and property; she is interested in exploring how land interacts with a wide spectrum of private and public law principles, including land law, equity, company and insolvency law, and planning law and policy.
• Aleksandra Cavoski is a Professor of Law whose research interests are in the field of environmental law and EU law, including the intersection of law and other disciplines, in particular politics, science, public policy and language.
• Janine Natalya Clark's research interests include war, transitional justice, posthumanism, new materialism, resilience and social-ecological systems.
• Amber Dar’s research focuses on regulation and responsibility for innovation in healthcare for children, and partnerships between health and law. The aims of partnerships between health and law include better identifying and addressing medical and non-medical factors impacting child health and well-being, such as environmental factors, housing and living conditions.
• Louis Dawson's research in environmental law encompasses abiotic and biotic media and includes, waste and resources, chemical regulation and biodiversity.
• Angela Eggleton is an interdisciplinary researcher focussing on the regulation of emerging technologies. As part of this, she researches environmental law and circularisation of the economy, with a focus on electric vehicles (EVs), and the regulation of EV li-ion batteries.
• Laura Holden's research focuses on environmental law, ethical science, chemical safety, and the acceptance of novel science and technology.
• Sandra Ingelkofer researches on renewable energy law and comparative law.
• Noah Izoukumor’s research interests lie in environmental law, with a particular focus on the interplay between sustainable development and climate change regulation, energy transition policies, and oil and gas law.
• Atina Krajewska’s research interests focus on global health law, especially sexual and reproductive justice, women’s rights, and the sociology of law. She is increasingly interested in the relationship between land and health rights.
• Bob Lee researches on technology regulation looking at net zero transitions and also at chemical safety.
• Walters Nsoh's research focuses primarily on the intersection of property (land) law and environmental law as it relates to the governance and sustainable management of natural resources/ecosystem goods and services.
• Iyan Offor (Theme Lead) conducts socio-legal and theoretical research on animals, nature and society, focusing on global animal law, global environmental law, critical legal theory, posthumanism, queer theory, intersectionality, and law & literature.
• Synda Obaji specialises in Environmental and Energy Law. Her research focusses on understanding complex legal and regulatory issues relating to environmental and energy justice, environmental governance, and sustainability. It explores the substantive and procedural foundations of environmental problems.
• Shalpreet Singh’s research examines the effectiveness of environmental impact assessments in tackling climate change and meeting sustainability goals along with environmental law’s intersection with land law.

Postgraduate Researchers

• Abiola Awe-Adesanya’s multidisciplinary research explores the environmental and sustainability challenges in the shift to electric vehicles, with a focus on recycling and reusing, towards a circular economy.
• Ursula Clarke’s research interests concern regulating point of sale sustainability disclosure to improve sustainable consumption and circularity.
• Kexuan Ding’s research interests are in the field of public international law and environmental law. She is currently exploring how international organizations, such as the UNHCR and IOM, have influenced the development of legal and policy frameworks for the protection of climate refugees.
• Mo Esan’s research focuses on global animal law and public international law, investigating the text, history and implementation of the African Union’s Animal Welfare Strategy for Africa.
• Sean Madden’s (Theme Deputy Lead) research focuses on the impact of globalised industrial agricultural production on climate change, human rights, and food security, with particular regard to minority communities and women in the global south.
• Bethan Smith’s research focuses on the roles of law, environmental ethics, and culture in addressing marine animal and environmental issues.
• Rubina Sultan-Chaudhary's research focuses on critical minerals, with a particular interest in how international trade and legal frameworks can support a circular economy and address environmental and human rights impacts in the energy transition.
• Ke Tang’s research centres on biodiversity law, with particular emphasis on biodiversity conservation, the equitable governance of global genetic-resource flows, and the regulation of biotechnology. His work also explores the intersections of environmental law with both property and tort law.
• Xinyue Xue is a Marie Curie Research Fellow. Her research focuses on sustainable public procurement and the empowerment of small businesses within public procurement markets.