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New edition of the JHRE

Post author By Dina Lupin
Post date 7th October 2018

The latest edition of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment is now out! The theme of the edition is Indigeneity, Human Rights and the Environment:

Editorial: Indigeneity, human rights and the environment by Evadne Grant
Aboriginal relationships to the natural world: colonial ‘protection’ of human rights and the environment by Irene Watson
Spaces for local voices? A discourse analysis of the decisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity by Louisa Parks
‘Eaten by the sea’: human rights claims for the impacts of climate change upon remote subnational communities by Miriam Cullen
KlimaSeniorinnen: lessons from the Swiss senior women’s case for future climate litigation by Cordelia Christiane Bähr, Ursula Brunner, Kristin Casper and Sandra H Lustig
Book review: Lakshman Guruswamy, Global Energy Justice: Law and Policy (West Academic Publishing, St Paul, MN 2016) 214 pp. Reviewed by Carmen G Gonzalez
Book review: Louis J Kotzé, Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene (Hart Publishing, Oxford 2016) 304 pp. Reviewed by James R May

You can read more about this latest edition (including two open access articles here)

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By Dina Lupin

Dina Lupin is the Director of the GNHRE and a Lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdon. Dina is an affiliated researcher in the project “Giving groups a proper say”, supported by the Austrian Science Fund and hosted at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Dina‘s current research is on silencing and epistemic injustice in the context of consultation processes with Indigenous peoples and her latest article on this subject can be found here. In 2020, Dina’s book, “Human Dignity and the Adjudication of Environmental Rights” was published with Edward Elgar Press.

Previously Dina worked as a Post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tilburg researching civil society organisations working on sustainable development in Ethiopia. You can read more about the research project here.

Dina was awarded her PhD in 2017 by the Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo. Her PhD was on the concept of human dignity in the context of environmental law and governance.

Dina completed her BA and LLB at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and her Master of Laws, with honours, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Dina previously worked as a Senior Attorney at the Centre for Environmental Rights (cer.org.za) in Cape Town. At the Centre, Dina represented a range of communities and activists in their battles for more transparent, accountable environmental and water management in the mining sector. She worked on the
legal aspects of acid mine drainage, hydraulic fracturing and was
instrumental in the facilitation of a community activist network in the field of mining and environmental justice. Dina also led the Centre’s work on improving transparency in environmental governance. As a result of her work at the Centre, Dina was included in the 2013 list of 200 Young South Africans published by the Mail and Guardian .

Dina has also worked in the Mining and Natural Resources team at Webber Wentzel, a South African law firm.