Kaia Turowski

Kaia Turowski is a PhD candidate funded by LSE Law and Brown University. She is the first student to undergo a dissertation with the Law School (supervised by Dr. Jan Zglinski) and Grantham Research Institute (Dr. Joana Setzer). Kaia’s research, titled “High-Stakes Influencers: How Amicus Briefs Shape Judicial Decision-Making in U.S. Climate Litigation,” analyzes how defendants, plaintiffs, and judges treat and use arguments made in amicus briefs filed in U.S. climate litigation.

Kaia holds a BA in Environmental Studies and Political Science from Reed College and a Masters in Environmental, Natural Resources and Energy Law from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. There, she was a research assistant for Dr. Lisa Benjamin. 

Kaia has been project managing Brown University’s Climate Social Science Network Working Group on climate-washing and net-zero commitments. She is also a research assistant for Dr. Noah Walker-Crawford at the Grantham Research Institute. Additionally, Kaia has contributed to the Global Perspectives on Corporate Climate Legal Tactics project at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.

Research Interests: 

• climate litigation
• amicus curiae briefs
• climate law and policy