Emily Barritt

Dr Emily Barritt is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law and Co-Director of the Transnational Law Institute. She holds fellowships at the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance at the University of Cambridge and the School of Law, Sciences Po. She is the author of the first monograph on the UNECE Aarhus Convention and has been cited by the Advocate General in recent jurisprudence from the Court of Justice of the European Union. Her research covers environmental justice, democracy, stewardship, climate litigation and Rights of Nature. Her work on a film about climate litigation and the Rights of Nature in Colombia was recently awarded a prize from King’s College London for international research engagement. Emily sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Law as an Analysis Editor and is a trustee of the Environmental Law Foundation.