I am an academic at the Strathclyde Law School, whose main area of expertise is international and EU environmental law.  As a researcher, my main interest lies in assessing how legal systems, from global and comparative perspectives, interact and contribute to, or hinder, more sustainable patterns of social reproduction. De/coloniality and critical perspectives on ‘global’ law are important perspectives to my teaching and research.
My recent work is developing along two specific lines of research. One focuses on the subjectivisation of ecosystems and Nature as an emerging trend in comparative environmental law. Another seeks to develop critical, socio-legal perspectives on the complex relationship between sustainability and tourism, which is a globally burgeoning economic sector with major -increasingly contested- social and environmental impacts.
More generally, I have an established track-record of published research about the compliance with and enforcement of international environmental law and, more specifically, of multilateral environmental treaties. My recent publications in this field discuss the respective remits and performances of international courts and treaty-specific compliance procedures.
After joining the Strathclyde Law School, I have also engaged extensively in knowledge exchange activities. These have focused on the implications of the UK’s decision to leave the EU on environmental law and governance in Scotland, as well as the sentencing of environmental crimes in Scotland. I have also collaborated with the UN Environment Programme for the development of CPD materials on the international legal framework for the protection of the ozone layer.

PhD, University of Barcelona

LLM, University of Barcelona

Diplôme des Hautes Études Européenes et Internationales, Institut Européen des Hautes Études Internationales (Nice, France)

LLB, University of Barcelona

Global law, Public International law, EU law, comparative law, decoloniality, rights of Nature, global justice, Anthropocene

Sustainability and tourism, critical tourism studies

Regime interactions, compliance with and enforcement of multilateral environmental treaties, transnational environmental crime

EU environmental law, external environmental policy of the EU

Brexit and environmental law and governance in Scotland

At PGT level, I lead or co-lead the following subjects within the LLM in Global Environmental Law and Governance:

• Global Environmental Law: Issues of Equity and Sustainability (with Dr Saskia Vermeylen)
• Public International Law & the Environment
• EU Environmental Law

I also contribute to modules such as ‘Environmental Treaties: Fragmentation and Regime Interactions’, ‘Fisheries Law and Sustainability’, and ‘Blue Economy and International Law’.

At undergraduate level, I lead the LLB Graduate Entry and Part-time programmes. I teach the 'Environmental Law (Hons)' fourth year module. I have also designed and lead the new 2nd and 3rd year elective 'An Introduction to Environmental Law'. 

In the past years, I have also lectured Public International Law and led tutorials in Public Law.