Email: G.Ganguly@lse.ac.uk

Thesis Title: 'The role of climate change litigation in the advancement of climate justice and human rights' [provisional]

Supervisors: Dr Stephen Humphreys and Dr Veerle Heyvaert

Research Interests: International Human Rights Law; International and Transnational Environmental Law; Refugee Law; Migration and Asylum; Global Ethics and Climate Change; Political Philosophy; Critical Theory

Geetanjali is a Law PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She completed her LLB with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations at the Australian National University (2012). She also holds an LLM (Dist) from the LSE (2014).

Geetanjali’s PhD research lies at the intersection of international human rights law and environmental law. It examines whether litigation has the potential to be an effective instrument of regulation in transnational and global climate change governance. To that end, it probes whether and to what extent litigation can play an effective regulatory role in securing climate justice and affording rights-based remedies to persons who have experienced climate harms. Looking at adjudication on climate change issues as a new and emerging form of climate change regulation in its own right, her research will also seek to measure the influence and impact of judicial decisions on climate change law and policymaking.

Geetanjali previously worked as a Legal Officer for the Australian government in the areas of administrative law and dispute resolution, and as a research assistant to Dr Andrew Scott at the LSE.