Jameela Joy Reyes

Joy is an interdisciplinary researcher with backgrounds in law, sociology, and political science. She is a Policy Officer in Climate Attribution in the project, ‘Bridging the Evidentiary Gap: Climate Attribution in the Courtroom’. Through a socio-legal approach, she looks at whether courts engage with climate science in climate litigation, and how parties can improve the evidentiary basis for climate accountability. She is also the Lead for a project on corporate climate reparations under the Global School of Sustainability.

Background

Joy holds two separate bachelor degrees in Psychology and Political Science from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of the Philippines, and a MSc in Global Environment, Politics and Society from the University of Edinburgh.

Joy has experience in the fields of both law and climate science. She used to be affiliated with the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (Friends of the Earth Philippines) and is currently affiliated with the Klima Center of the Manila Observatory as Technical Advisor and the University of Warwick as a Research Assistant. She is a member of the Loss and Damage Collaboration, the Global Strategic Litigation Council, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. She has published articles on environmental governance, climate justice, and human rights. She also teaches environmental and natural resources law in the Philippines.

Research interests

• Climate litigation and the role of science.
• Loss and Damage and the UNFCCC processes.
• Human rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, and climate change.