Professor Philippe Cullet is a law researcher and teacher. He holds a doctorate in law (JSD) from Stanford Law School, Stanford University and previously studied law at the University of Geneva, King's College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He is a Professor of International and Environmental Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London where he teaches international and comparative environmental law and intellectual property. For more information, please click here.

Dr Usha Ramanathan is an internationally recognized expert on law and poverty based in New Delhi. She is research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, teaches environmental law, labour law and consumer law at the Indian Law Institute. She has also been invited to teach in many universities around the world. Her research interests include environmental law and policy, human rights, children rights, women rights, labour law, marginal communities and the law, and torts.

Dr Patricia Kameri-Mbote is a law researcher and teacher based in Nairobi. She studied law in Nairobi, Warwick and Stanford. She is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Nairobi and is a programme director at IELRC. Her research interests include public international law, environmental law and policy, human rights, women rights, intellectual property and economic law. For more information, please click here.

Francelyn Begonia is an Assistant Provincial Prosecutor for the Province of Quezon in the Philippines. She is currently trying various cases involving crimes against women and minors, and all cases where a minor is a party, either as complainant or accused. Earlier, she spent 12 years working at the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, a pioneering non-government organization based in Manila, whose advocacy centres on indigenous peoples rights to land and tenurial security. Her research interests include human rights, corporate social accountability, as well as women and children's rights advocacy in the courts.

Dr Jill Cottrell is a law researcher and teacher now retired from teaching at the University of Hong Kong. She studied law in London and Yale. She taught at the University of Ife (Nigeria), Ahmadu Bello University and Warwick Law School. Her research interests include environmental law, torts and some aspects of public law.

Dr. Martin Lau is a Barrister at Essex Court Chambers and a Reader in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he teaches courses on South Asian law, modern Islamic law and comparative environmental law at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. He was the Director of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law from 1995 to 1998, the Head of the SOAS Law Department from 2002 until 2005 and has been the Chief Examiner for Islamic Law of the External LLB of the University of London for more than ten years. He was a visiting scholar at the universities of Nagoya (2005) and Harvard (2005/06) as well as a legal advisor to European Commission in Afghanistan (2007). Martin combines his academic research with advisory work on environmental law projects, for instance with the IUCN, and expert opinions on South Asian and Islamic law. His publications include the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, now in its 15th volume. For more information, please click here.

Feja Lesniewska is a law researcher and teacher on LLM courses in international environmental law, climate change law and policy, law, environment and development and the law of natural resources at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She holds an MA (Hons) in Economic History and MSc in Human Ecology from Edinburgh University, as well as an MA in International Legal Studies from SOAS. She is the Deputy Director of the Law, Environment and Development Centre (LEDC) at SOAS. She also works as a legal consultant on land use, forestry and climate change issues. [read more]

Paula Martins holds an LLM from New York University and a Master in Political Sciences and an LLB from the University of Sao Paulo. She has wide-ranging experience in the field of human rights, having worked for instance for Human Rights Watch, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Instituto Pro Bono. For more information, please click here.

M. Roopa holds an LLM from New York University and a BA/LLB from National Law School of India University, Bangalore. She has been a visiting faculty at the National Law School, has had extensive work experience with trade unions and was the President and Founder Member of the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore.

Dr David Takacs, BSc, MA, LLM, PhD is a Law Researcher and Associate Professor of Law at UC Hastings where he teaches environmental law, biodiversity law, international environmental law and climate change law. He holds a PhD in Science & Technology Studies from Cornell University, an LLM from SOAS and a JD from University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He is the author of The Idea of Biodiversity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). He has worked as a professor in Earth Systems Science & Policy at CSU Monterey Bay, a lecturer in the John S. Knight Writing Program at Cornell, a Peace Corps Forestry Volunteer in Senegal and more recently as a consultant on law and policy issues related to forest carbon for USAID and Conservation International. [read more]