Climate Justice

Eklavya Vasudev is a legal scholar at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, researching climate litigation and co-coordinating an international PhD programme on Business and Human Rights. A 2024 President's Prize recipient, he has practiced before the Indian Supreme Court and held positions at the Lawyers Collective, American Bar Association, and the O'Neill Institute in Washington DC. Marie-Sophie Keller is a socio-legal scholar at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, NGO consultant and activist. Her area of research interests lies in gender, climate justice, and supply chains. She previously worked in German Parliament and took part in the political and legal process around the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act. Her involvement in the fight against Unilever's devastating mercury pollution and the systematic undermining of workers' rights with deadly consequences in the Indian town of Kodaikanal was the beginning of her ongoing commitment to business and human rights. Siddharth Peter de Souza is an Assistant Professor at Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick. His work explores how data is governed globally in contested, and plural settings and he has authored Designing Indicators for a Plural Legal World which discusses how rule of law indicators needs to be reimagined in contexts and countries in the Global Majority. Siddharth is the founder of Justice Adda, a law and design social venture which seeks to build legal literacy and awareness in India, and a Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Global Data Justice Project, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society.