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Scientific and Advisory Board

Nineteen leading international scholars working on climate change law and litigation, environmental law and comparative law. Members engage with the project’s research as it develops and contribute to an ongoing intellectual dialogue with the research team on methodological choices, analytical frameworks and emerging findings.

Dr. Ivano AlognaScientific and Advisory Board Member, British Institute for International and Comparative LawDr. Ivano Alogna is Senior Research Fellow in Environmental and Climate Change Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, where he leads the climate law programme. His research centres on comparative climate litigation and corporate climate accountability, areas in which he created the Global Toolbox on Corporate Climate Litigation. He has published widely on environmental and climate change law, and regularly provides specialised judicial training for judges and legal practitioners across multiple jurisdictions worldwide.View profile

Dr. Michael BurgerScientific and Advisory Board Member, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia UniversityMichael Burger is Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, where he leads one of the world's most impactful climate law research centers and its domestic and international efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and advance climate adaptation. Michael is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, a frequent public speaker, and a regular source of expertise for media, with years of experience collaborating with local, national, and international organizations on climate initiatives. He is also Of Counsel at Sher Edling LLP, where he represents public clients in major climate cases around the country. He is a Regent and Fellow at the American College of Environmental Lawyers, a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Climate and Nature Governance, and serves on the advisory boards of the Urban Ocean Lab and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society.View profile

Prof. Danielle de Andrade MoreiraScientific and Advisory Board Member, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (JUMA)Danielle Moreira is an Associate Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), where she leads the research group Law, Environment, and Justice in the Anthropocene (JUMA). JUMA is responsible for the development and maintenance of the Brazilian Climate Litigation Platform. She holds a PhD (2008) and a Master’s (2003) degree in Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), and a BA in Law (1998) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Danielle currently serves as a visiting senior fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), an extraordinary research fellow at the Law Group of Wageningen University the Brazil Rapporteur for the British Institute of International and Comparative Law’s Global Perspectives on Corporate Climate Legal Tactics project, as Director of the Law for a Green Planet Institute (IDPV), and as Academic Coordinator of the Association of Environmental Law Professors of Brazil (APRODAB).View profile

Prof. Jolene LinScientific and Advisory Board Member, National University of SingaporeProf. Jolene Lin is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law. Her research focuses on climate change litigation and transnational climate change law, with publications in leading international and environmental law journals. She also serves on several editorial boards and advisory bodies, including the advisory board of the Climate Change Legal Initiative, contributing to advancing climate governance across the Asia-Pacific region.View profile

Prof. Attilio PisanòScientific and Advisory Board Member, Università del SalentoAttilio Pisanò is Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Salento, where he teaches across programmes in Law, Geopolitical and International Studies, and Sports Law and Management. He serves as Principal Researcher for the Political Terror Scale (North Carolina University) and as Special Rapporteur for Italy in the BIICL's Global Perspectives on Corporate Climate Legal Tactics project. He leads the UniSalento Research Unit of the PRIN 2022 project "Increasing Trust, Making Future Generations Possible" and is Vice-Director of the Department of Legal Sciences. A member of doctoral boards in Rights and Sustainability (UniSalento) and National Peace Studies (La Sapienza), he has held visiting positions at universities in Colombia, Turkey, Estonia, Spain, and Portugal. His research spans climate litigation, strategic litigation, human rights recognition processes, and the use of rights language for new legal subjects such as animals, the environment, and future generations. He has published extensively in leading international and Italian journals.View profile

Prof. Oliver RuppelScientific and Advisory Board Member, University of Graz / Stellenbosch UniversityProf. Oliver Ruppel is a leading scholar of international economic and environmental law at the University of Graz and Stellenbosch University, with a strong focus on climate change and sustainable development in Africa. His work addresses the interface between trade, climate governance and human rights, contributing to key debates on climate justice in the Global South. He regularly participates in international expert processes and in capacity-building initiatives on climate change law and policy across the African continent.View profile

Prof. Joana SetzerScientific and Advisory Board Member, London School of Economics and Political ScienceJoana Setzer is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE), specialising in climate litigation and global environmental governance. She leads the Climate Change Laws of the World project, the most comprehensive global resource on climate policy and legislation. Joana was a Contributing Author to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and regularly advises governments and international organisations. She is also Co-Lead of LSE Global School of Sustainability theme on legal, political, and governance systems and an Associate Member of Cornerstone Barristers.View profile

Dr. Maria Antonia TigreScientific and Advisory Board Member, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia UniversityDr. Maria Antonia Tigre is Director of Global Climate Litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School, where she manages the Global Climate Litigation Database. Her research focuses on rights-based climate litigation and climate justice in the Global South. She is Deputy Director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment and a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, with prior experience at the Cyrus R. Vance Center.View profile

Prof. Lisa VanhalaScientific and Advisory Board Member, University College LondonLisa Vanhala is Pro-Vice Provost for the Grand Challenge Theme of the Climate Crisis and Full Professor of Political Science at University College London, where she also serves as Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science. Her research bridges political science, law, and sociology, with a focus on legal mobilisation in human rights and climate change. She is a leading authority on the politics and governance of climate change loss and damage, the subject of two recent volumes: Governing the End (University of Chicago Press) and, with Elisa Calliari, Governing Climate Change Loss and Damage: The National Turn (Cambridge University Press). Her work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Law & Society Review, Nature Climate Change, and Global Environmental Politics, among others. A recipient of an ERC Starting Grant and an ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellowship, she regularly advises UN agencies, governments, and foundations.View profile

Prof. Margaretha Wewerinke-SinghScientific and Advisory Board Member, University of AmsterdamProf. Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh is Associate Professor of Public International Law and Sustainability Law at the University of Amsterdam. Her research explores the intersection of climate change, human rights and sustainable development, and she is the author of State Responsibility, Climate Change and Human Rights under International Law, a key monograph on rights-based climate accountability. Drawing on her extensive experience in international negotiations and advisory roles, she works with governments, NGOs and international bodies on climate justice issues.View profile

Prof. Kim BouwerScientific and Advisory Board Member, University of DurhamProf. Kim Bouwer is an Associate Professor at Durham Law School. Prior to this she held posts or visiting positions at a variety of global institutions, including the LSE, UCL, the European University Institute, the University of the Witwatersrand, and KCL. Kim is also a dual qualified practitioner, and before her doctoral research worked as a public interest lawyer, representing claimants in cases involving police violence, industrial disease, and environmental justice. She holds a PhD from UCL and completed her undergraduate education at the University of the Witwatersrand. Kim specialises in climate change and environmental law, and private law. She has published widely in these fields in leading journals including Legal Studies, the Journal of Environmental Law, the Journal of Human Rights and Environment, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, and Nature Sustainability. She has also been the UK Rapporteur for the British Institute for International and Comparative Law on their Global Perspectives on Corporate Climate Legal Tactics project. Kim is currently Principal Investigator on a three-year Leverhulme Trust Research Grant Project examining everyday climate litigation.View profile

Prof. Michele CarducciScientific and Advisory Board Member, Università del SalentoProf. Michele Carducci is Full Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law and Climate Law at the University of Salento. He coordinates the Centro di Ricerca Euro-Americano sulle Politiche Costituzionali (CEDEUAM) and the Laboratorio di Analisi Ecologica del Diritto. His research spans comparative constitutionalism, Latin American legal theory, rights of nature and climate justice. He coordinated the first European proposal for a Charter of Fundamental Rights of Nature and supports climate justice movements in both national and international litigation.View profile

Prof. Tania GroppiScientific and Advisory Board Member, Università di SienaProf. Tania Groppi is Full Professor of Public Law at the University of Siena, where she also teaches comparative constitutional law. Her research interests include constitutional justice, federalism, constitution-building processes and the use of foreign precedents by constitutional judges. She has served as legal adviser to the Italian Constitutional Court and to the Council of Europe. A visiting professor at universities across Europe, North America and the Middle East, she has authored over two hundred scholarly publications.View profile

Prof. Benoit MayerScientific and Advisory Board Member, University of ReadingBenoit Mayer is Professor of Climate Law at the School of Law at the University of Reading. He previously worked at the University of Wuhan (2015-2016) and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2016-2024). He is the Executive Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law, a member of the UNFCCC Roster of Experts, and a lead author of the Seventh Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Professor Mayer holds degrees from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, McGill University, and the National University of Singapore. Prof. Mayer's research explores various aspects of international and comparative climate law. His research has explored the climate-migration nexus, interpreted the obligations of states relating to the mitigation of climate change, and explored the role of national environmental assessment tools in global efforts to mitigate climate change. His research has featured in the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, and International and Comparative Law Quarterly, and in monographs published with Cambridge and Oxford University Press.View profile

Prof. Phillip PaiementScientific and Advisory Board Member, University of TilburgPhillip Paiement is the Professor of Law & Governance in the Anthropocene at Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University. He is the PI of the ERC-funded TransLitigate which studies the transnational collaborative networks of legal professionals working in climate change and environmental litigation. He also serves as co-Convening Editor of the journal Transnational Legal Theory.View profile

Prof. Annalisa SavaresiScientific and Advisory Board Member, University of Stirling / University of Eastern FinlandAnnalisa Savaresi is an environmental lawyer with 20 years of experience working with international, regional, and national governmental and non-governmental organizations. She earned her PhD from the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen in 2013 and has since held academic positions at the University of Edinburgh (2012-2016) and the University of Stirling, where she continues to hold a part-time chair. Her academic portfolio includes over 60 peer-reviewed articles and contributions to renowned collections, such as Nature and the Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law, which have been widely cited, including by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She has held visiting posts at the University of Bologna, the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Italy), and the University of La Sabina (Colombia). At the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Annalisa directs the Joint Nordic Master Programme in Environmental Law and oversees the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law’s contributions to the Horizon Europe project RETOOL. Annalisa serves as the Director for Europe within the Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment and has been a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law since 2009. She has provided expert evidence to legislative bodies such as the UK, EU, and Scottish Parliaments and currently sits on the Board of Environmental Standards Scotland, established under the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021, overseeing public authorities’ compliance with environmental law in Scotland.View profile

Prof. Francesco SindicoScientific and Advisory Board Member, University of Strathclyde, GlasgowProf. Francesco Sindico is Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde Law School in Glasgow. His research spans international environmental law, climate change law, international trade law and water law, with particular expertise on transboundary aquifers and water governance. He frequently advises governments and international organisations and has successfully led several externally funded research projects on climate and water governance, contributing to policy development at the intersection of environmental protection and natural resource management.View profile

Prof. Marta Torre-SchaubScientific and Advisory Board Member, Sorbonne University / CNRSProf. Marta Torre-Schaub is Senior Researcher in Law at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), based at the Sorbonne. She founded and directs leading research networks on law and climate change, including the GDR ClimaLex and the Law and Climate Change network. Her work focuses on climate litigation, environmental law and the legal dimensions of the ecological transition in France and beyond, positioning her as a central figure in French and European climate law scholarship.View profile

Prof. Harro van AsseltScientific and Advisory Board Member, University of CambridgeHarro van Asselt is the Hatton Professor of Climate Law with the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow and Director of Studies at Hughes Hall, and a Fellow with the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Outside of Cambridge, he is a Professor of Climate Law and Policy at the University of Eastern Finland Law School, and an Affiliated Researcher with the Stockholm Environment Institute.View profile

Climpact Rapporteurs Panel

The Rapporteurs Panel provides specialized expertise on climate litigation developments across five regional contexts: Europe, Latin America, Asia and Oceania, Africa and North America. Regional panels monitor emerging cases, offer analytical insights on jurisdictional patterns, and validate research findings against local legal and social realities — ensuring comparative analysis across different legal systems and institutional settings.

Data & Research Integrity Committee

Prof. Antonio Felice UricchioCommittee Member, University of BariFull Professor of Tax Law, former President of the National Evaluation Agency of Research, former Rector of the University of Bari.View profile

Prof. Antonia BaraggiaCommittee Member, University of MilanFull Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Milan.View profile

Dr. Francesca RicciulliCommittee Member, E-LexAttorney at E-Lex, expert in privacy, data and AI. She holds a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law at the University of Roma Tre.View profile