As Research Professor at the North-West University, I am an ambitious, strategic and proactive scholar who combines excellent inter-personal skills, strength in academic leadership, teaching and postgraduate research supervision, research innovation and management, and an internationally recognised research profile. My research concentrates on global environmental law, with a specific emphasis on its intersecting formal/governance and substantive aspects at national, regional, international and transnational levels. My research broadly encompasses three interrelated themes that I approach from a transnational perspective: human rights, socio-ecological justice and environmental constitutionalism; law and the Anthropocene; and Earth system law. I have raised approximately 970 000 Euro for collaborative North-South research projects and have published over 150 publications related to these themes over the past 15 years. In addition to extensive undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience, I have supervised several postgraduate students to successful completion within the framework of the university’s doctoral and postdoctoral programmes, and its LLM Environmental Law and Governance programme that I co-founded in 2006 and co-directed until 2016. I have served a two-year term (2018-2019) as Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln, (UK) where I led a European Commission Horizon 2020 project titled: Global Ecological Custodianship: Innovative International Environmental Law for the Anthropocene. I am currently a Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law at the University of Lincoln.
