Dr. Shubham Pandey is Lecturer of Law, at the School of Law, Forensic Justice and Policy Studies under National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) Gandhinagar, India.  Dr. Shubham holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT) in the area of law, technology and public policy. He has done his LLM from IIT Kharagpur and BA LLB(Hons.) from Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. His numerous works have been published in various journals of national and international repute and he has 15 publications to his name. He has participated in various National and International Conferences to present his works on various fields of Law, Technology, Public Health and Public Policy. He is an avid researcher and teaches Cyber Law, Information Technology Law and laws related to Data Protection and Good governance. 

Professor Damien Short is Co-Director of the Human Rights Consortium (HRC) and a Professor of Human Rights and Environmental Justice at the School of Advanced Study. He has spent his entire professional career working in the field of human rights and environmental justice, both as a scholar and advocate. He has researched and published extensively in the areas of indigenous peoples’ rights, genocide studies, reconciliation projects and environmental human rights. He is currently researching the human rights impacts of extreme energy processes (e.g Tar Sands and Fracking – see our designated HRC website http://extremeenergy.org) . Professor Short is a regular academic contributor to the United Nation’s ‘Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ and an academic consultant for the ‘Ethical Trade Task Force’ of the Soil Association. He is also the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Human Rights (Taylor and Francis) and Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Rights in the Commonwealth (University of London) and convenor of the British Sociological Association’s Sociology of Rights Study Group and an active member of the International Network of Genocide Scholars. Professor Short has also worked with a variety of NGOs including Amnesty International, War on Want, Survival International, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs; and with a range of campaign groups including Eradicating Ecocide, Biofuelwatch, Climate Justice Collective and the UK Tar Sands Network. He currently advises local anti-fracking groups in the UK and county councils on the human rights implications of unconventional (extreme) energy extraction processes such as fracking.

Matteo Fermeglia is Assistant Professor of Climate Law and Governance at Amsterdam University, Faculty of Humanities and at the Amsterdam School for Transnational, European and Regional Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Legal Sciences at the University of Udine, Italy. His Ph.D. Thesis focused on the legal aspects of the European Union Emission Trading System. 

In 2017, he was visiting scholar at Columbia Law School, where he collaborated with the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investments. He was also visiting scholar at Copenhagen University, Graz University and Wyoming University. He regularly (co-) authors internationally peer-reviewed journal articles in the field of environmental and climate law. Matteo was awarded the Raúl Estrada-Oyuela Award for Emerging Scholars in Climate Law in 2017 by Lexxion publishers. 

María Luisa Gómez Jiménez is Phd, tenured professor of Administrative Law at Malaga University. She leads the Sustainable Research Group P.A.S.O.S. and Directs the Research Group on Sustainable Housing. Founder of the indexed journal WPS-RISHUR, on Urban Sustainability and Urban regeneration and Director of the Publishing collection on Latin American Studies, She performs also as Assistant Director of the Research Institute of Biotechnology and Blue Economy at Malaga University, while being a member of the Andalusian Research Institute of Smart homes and energy efficiency, and She is member of the Directive Board of the Interprofessional Association of Land planning (FUNDICOT). Her research activities focus on the areas of Land Use Law, Housing, Smart homes, Smart cities, Urban Sustainability, Environmental Issues, e-health, and Social Services. She is a member of the Environmental Policies Observatory from the Minister on the topics of Air Quality. As for Teaching responsibilities She Directs, now during the last 15 years the innovative training lab on sustainability at UMA, and the excellence network NEXTRANS. She has been the first researcher at the Joint Center for Housing Studies de la Universidad de Harvard University in which She has been regularly appointed as visiting researcher and Scientific in the European Law Research Center, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Center for European Studies, Kennedy School of Government and lately the School of Public Health. Appointed Visiting fellow at an outstanding scholar at Bournemouth University (UK), hast taught in the Master of Leadership at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, and participates and coordinates projects at international level being also Erasmus coordinator at Malaga. She has published more than 100 works among papers, books, and articles. Actually, She leads an innovative project to protect the effects of the COVID-19, in the area of social studies, and Teaches regularity in the degree of Social Work and Human Resource Management at the Social Studies School.

Michel PRIEUR, President of the International Centre for Comparative Environmental Law, Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Limoges, Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences of Limoges, and Scientific Director of the Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en droit de l’environnement, de l’aménagement et de l’urbanisme (Limoges).

Alessandro Monti is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law. He holds a double-degree PhD from the Universities of Innsbruck and Padova. His research focuses on the regulation of renewable energy and the link between climate change, trade, and investment law. He has published widely on these topics, and he teaches several Master courses on climate, energy, and sustainability. He is the author of the monograph Promoting Renewable Energy: the Mutual Supportiveness of Climate and Trade Law (Edward Elgar, 2023), and co-convenor of the Interest Group on Energy Law of the European Society of International Law (ESIL). He is qualified as attorney-at-law in Italy.

Anne Amin is currently leading the Legislation and Governance workstreams of UN-Habitat. With over two decades of international professional experience, Anne is a seasoned legal and governance specialist with a diverse skill set. Her expertise spans advisory services in legislative processes, legislative drafting, capacity building, and research across a spectrum of areas. From urban governance and physical planning law to climate change and environmental policy, Anne's passion lies in crafting legal frameworks that uphold the rights of individuals and promote sustainable development.

Anne holds a Master's degree in Law from the University of Helsinki, Finland, where she specialized in International Tax Law. She has also studied International Law at the University of Paris VIII, France, honing her expertise in legal matters with a global perspective. Fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Finnish, Anne's multilingual proficiency enhances her ability to engage with diverse stakeholders and navigate complex legal landscapes on an international scale.

Mohamed Ali MEKOUAR, Vice-President of the International Centre for Comparative Environmental Law, former Professor of Law at the University of Casablanca, former Director of the Conference, Council and Protocol Division at the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and former Chief of the FAO Development Law Service (Rome).

Permanent professor of the Master’s degree in Regulatory Law and a law degree at the Rio de Janeiro Law School of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation and an adjunct professor – Pace University of New York. Visiting Professor at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta. He leads the Cnpq Law and Environment Research Group under THE RIO LAW and also acts as coordinator of the specialization course in Environmental Regulation Law. He has experience in law, with emphasis on Environmental Law, working mainly in the following areas of sustainability, environmental governance, climate change and water law.

Since 2016 Prof. Dr. Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle coordinates the research programme “European Administrative Space” at the German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer where she is also a professor for public law at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Germany. Her main research interests are in European and national administrative Law, university and environmental law as well as democracy studies.

Maíra Tito is an urban lawyer and specialist in public policies and management. She is a member of Nova Green Lab (Nova School of Law, Lisbon) where she is currently enrolled in the PhD programme in Law. She has been an intern at United Nations Office in Naiorib and has published articles and book chapters on local policies and climate change, energy efficiency and energy poverty, and legal aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prof. Uday Shankar is Associate Professor at Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur. He has been teaching and researching in law for more than 20 years. He has served as guest professor under Magdalene Schoch Fellowship awarded by the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg in the year 2016 and recipient of the prestigious fellowship from the Max-Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg in the year 2008. He is a Member of International Association of Constitutional Law. He is a Life Member of Indian Law Institute, Delhi. 

More than 60 of his academic writings are published in journals and books.  He has presented papers and delivered invited talks in more than 80 conferences in India and abroad. He delivers lecture as a resource person in Faculty Development Programme/Conferences in the area of Constitutional Law/Research Methodology/Teaching Pedagogy. His course on Introduction to Law on Electricity is offered under the scheme of National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), project funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. He has organized GIAN Course on Energy Law and Policy and Short Term Courses on Labour Law and Make in India/Skill India. He sits on the editorial boards or advisory boards of journals published by the National Law Universities/Law Colleges in India.

Benedetta Celati is currently a research fellow in Administrative Law at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna. In 2022 she has been qualified for the position of associate professor in the sector 12/E3 "Law on Economy, Financial Markets and Agro-Food and Navigation". In 2017, through an international thesis co-tutorship, she obtained a Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, specializing in Public Law and Economics, from the University of Pisa, and in Economic Sciences from Université Paris-Est. She has participated in numerous conferences in Italy and abroad and has authored various essays on topics such as the socioeconomic development of territories, the transition to a circular economy, strategic public intervention, and urban and territorial regeneration. She has published a monograph entitled "L'intervento pubblico per la riconversione ecologica dell'economia. modelli, strumenti e prospettive giuridiche (Cedam, 2021).

Paola Iamiceli is Full Professor of Private Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento (Italy). She earned her Law degree at the University of Rome in 1995, her LLM at the University of Chicago (in 1999) and her PhD in the Law of Obligations at the University of Ferrara (in 2000). She has been a member of several research project groups at EU and international level, including a Working Group set by the International Institution for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Contract Farming. She is currently part of two EU judicial training programmes in the area of protection of fundamental rights.

Professor Emmanuel B Kasimbazi is a Professor of Law at the School of Law, Makerere University, and Kampala, Uganda.   He writes, teaches and advises governments and international organizations on environmental Law and Policy   He is an active member in the IUCN as a member of the Academy on Environmental Law and a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. He is a fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences, the African Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences.  He was the Winner of the Scientist of the Year 2020 in Social Sciences / Law / Environment category awarded by the International Achievements Research Center based in Chicago, USA.

PhD Candidate and Research Fellow in agri-food and environmental law at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa (IT). Her research focuses on One Health and sustainable food systems from a legal and policy perspective. Since October 2023, she has been an International Legal Consultant at FAO. In 2022, she was a visiting researcher at Wageningen University & Research (NL) and a Blue Book Candidate at the EU Commission, DG SANTE (BX). She holds an LLM in Food Law and a Master's Degree in Law.

Former professor of private law at University of Trento and professor of comparative law at the European University Institute. Coordinator of the EU judicial training project on fundamental rights and the right to an effective judicial remedy. Currently coordinator of the network of judges and scholars in the COVID 19 Litigation Project of Trento University and WHO

Maciej holds a PhD (summa cum laude) and a habilitation (Doctor of Science, DSc) in law. He is a Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Keio University, Japan, associated with the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His specialisation is public law, and he has published around ninety publications on public law regulation and climate-energy policy, including three solo-authored books “Regulation in the European Electricity Sector” (Routledge, 2016), “European Law on Combined Heat and Power” (Routledge, 2020), and “Energy Transition of the Electricity Sectors in the European Union and Japan: Regulatory Models and Legislative Solutions” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). For his health-related papers, please see “Regulation in the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic times: day-watchman tackling the novel coronavirus” (2020) and "Artificial intelligence and robotics on the frontlines of the pandemic response: the regulatory models for technology adoption and the development of resilient organisations in smart cities" (2023). In 2022, he received the Prime Minister of Poland’s Research Award. Beyond karate kumite and nunchaku, Maciej immerses himself in Japanese culture by playing the shamisen.

Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov is Professor of law, Head of the BIU Lab for Law, Data-Science and Digital Ethics and co-director of the dual degree program in law and political science at Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law. He serves as General Editor of the international journal The Theory and Practice of Legislation, member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Legislation and Co-Chair of the Israeli Association of Legislation. He also serves as member of the Executive Board of the University’s Data-Science Institute and Senior Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Digital Governance (DIGOV).

Before joining Bar Ilan, Prof. Bar-Siman-Tov was an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School in New York. He has previously served as a senior law clerk for Justice Dorit Beinisch at the Supreme Court of Israel, and as research assistant to Professor Menahem Elon, former deputy Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. Prof. Bar-Siman-Tov obtained his J.S.D. and LL.M. (summa cum laude- James Kent Scholar) from Columbia Law School, where he was Fulbright Scholar, Fischman Scholar, and Morris Fellow. He received his LL.B., magna cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Prof. Bar-Siman-Tov received multiple awards, including, among others, the Giandomenico Majone Prize, awarded by the European Consortium for Political Research’s Standing Group on Regulatory Governance; the Gorney Prize for Outstanding Research in Public Law, awarded by the Israeli Association of Public Law; the Cheshin Prize for Academic Excellence in Law; the Rector Prize for Scientific Innovation; and the University Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also received numerous research grants, including, inter alia, from the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF); the Israel Science Foundation (ISF); the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST); the Volkswagen Foundation; the Israel Institute; the National Institute for Health Policy Research; and the Fulbright program. Prof. Bar-Siman-Tov was also named one of the Most Inspiring Professors in Israel by The National Union of Israeli Students.

Prof. Bar-Siman-Tov's research areas include legisprudence, parliamentary studies, legislation and regulation; constitutional law and constitutional theory; and law and data science/ artificial intelligence. His scholarship has been published, inter alia, in the Georgetown Law Journal; Boston University Law Review; William & Marry Law Review; Political Studies; American Journal of Comparative Law; International Journal of Constitutional Law; and Regulation & Governance. He also edited two books, most recenly Comparative Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Omnibus Legislation (Springer Nature's Legisprudence Library, 2021), and four special issues.

Linda is a Senior Research Fellow at APCEL and also an Associate Professor of Law in Universitas Gadjah Mada. She is an internationally recognised scholar in Indonesian international environmental law and her research has established her as a leading expert who is frequently consulted by the Indonesian government and international organizations. Her research focuses on international environmental issues, such as climate change, REDD+, land issues and customary (adat) issues. Linda was a member of the delegation leading Indonesia’s negotiations of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. From 2018 to 2021, Linda is a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report. Linda was a Visiting Fellow at APCEL from 5 August 2019 to 3 September 2019 under the APCEL Visiting Fellow Programme.

Professor Aristide Police has an extensive and all-round experience in all sectors of administrative law. He is listed in the highest sector rankings, such as “Hall of Fame” (Legal500) and “Star Individual” (Chambers). He is particularly experienced in the field of public procurement and concessions, public law economics, privatisation of public companies, relations with independent administrative authorities, administrative litigation, proceedings before Italian Supreme Audit Institution and economic and infrastructural planning, as well as EU policies and funding. Professor Police’s academic career is equally significant. He is currently Professor of Administrative Law at the LUISS “Guido Carli” University, having previously held the same position at “Tor Vergata” University in Rome and at the University of Teramo. At the same time, he was appointed Adjunct Professor at the Law School of China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. He is an Alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been a member of the Board of Auditors of the Italian President of the Republic’s Office, of the Commission for access to administrative documents at Italy’s Prime Minister’s Office and of several Ministerial Commissions, including, most recently, the commission for the drafting of the new Regulation implementing the Italian Code of Public Contracts. He has been a Director of public and private companies, including as Chairman of Alitalia (2006-2008). In 1993, he was admitted to the bar and in 2001, to practice before the Italian Supreme Court.

Chiara Feliziani is Associate Professor of Administrative Law at the School of Law, University of Macerata.

In the a.y. 2023 - 2024 she is visiting professor of International Environmental Law at the Riga Graduate Law School.

She has spent several periods of research abroad: School of Law of the King's College (London, 2011) European University Institute (Florence, 2012), Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London, 2014 and 2017);Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, 2016); Departamento de Derecho Público dell'Universidad de Oviedo (2023).

She is the author of three books and several articles in the field of Administrative Law, Administrative Justice and Environmental Law.

In 2010 she has been admitted at the Italian Bar.

Since February 2020 she has been appointed as legal expert at the EU Infringement Procedures Office of the European Politics and Affairs Department, Presidency of the Ministers' Council (Rome).

Prof. Elena Buoso is associate professor of Administrative Law at the School of Law in Padua. She has been visiting fellow in several Research Institutions (Max-Planck-Institute for comparative public Law in Heidelberg (2007-2008); Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2009); University of Reading (2011), Universidad de Alicante (2019); visiting professor at the Julius Maximilian Universität, Würzburg (2015-16) and appointed professor at the Universität Innsbruck (2017-21). She is interested in administrative and constitutional law as well as in environmental, urban and digital law.

Lecturer in Sociology and International Relations at University of Roehampton. Expert in commissioning and editing a think tank’s opinion series, researching with a number of organisations, public speaking and extensive campaigning and communications experience as well as delivering academic papers. Professor Crook  has published a number of papers and books on green criminology, sociology of rights and the political economy of genocide and mass violence.

Professor Qin Tianbao is a Changjiang Scholar and Luojia Distinguished Professor of Law, and serves as the Director of the Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL), Wuhan University and the Deputy Director of the Research Center of the Supreme Court of China on Environmental-related Cases. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law and a Member of the Compliance Committee of the Nagoya Protocol on ABS. Secretary-General of Chinese Society of Environment and Resources Law (CSERL) he was a Lead Author and Review Expert of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). He is author of several books and more than 100 articles in these fields. He was Vice Dean for the School of Law, and was Deputy Chief Judge of Environmental Chamber of the Supreme Court of China (Mainland)

Fabio Bassan is Full Professor in International Law and European Union Law at Roma Tre University. ICSID Conciliator, his research mostly focuses on International Economic and Financial Law and European Union market regulation. He authored many books and articles and is in the Board of several journals