Maria Antonieta Nestor

Dr. Maria Antonieta "Nestor" is an academic lawyer with a background in Public Interest Law, Community Economic Development Law and Policy, and Climate Change Law. She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin specialising in public interest law, access to justice and community economic development, LLM from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA David J Epstein Programme in Public Interest Law & Policy), and Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from University College Dublin. She is also a trained legal interpreter and translator, with a diploma in journalism. Currently a Bye-Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Bye-Fellow, Research Associate and Director of Studies at Lucy Cavendish College, Centre Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Property Law (CCPL), Associate Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Secretariat member at the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI) and member of IUCN-WCEL (World Commission on Environmental Law). Her main research interests are the intersection between public interest law, access to justice, community economic development, sustainability and the environment, and linking private law, planning, environmental/climate change and international law to combat urban poverty and to redress social exclusion.