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Personal Statement
Elisa Morgera is Professor of Global Environmental Law and Co-Director of Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance. She specializes in international, European and comparative environmental law, with a particular focus on the interaction between biodiversity law and human rights (particularly those of indigenous peoples and local communities), equity and sustainability in natural resource development, oceans governance, and corporate accountability. Elisa has also researched the environmental dimensions of the external relations of the European Union (EU).
Research Interests
Prof Elisa Morgera was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant (2013-2018) on the legal concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing in different areas of international law (environment, oceans and human rights) and a grant under the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme (funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)) investigating specifically fair and equitable benefit-sharing in international fisheries law and policy (2015-2016). Both projects are inter-disciplinary in nature.
Elisa has recently guest-edited a special issue of the Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law (RECIEL) on comparative environmental law (volume 24:4, 2015); and coordinated two edited volumes: the Research Handbook on International Law and Natural Resources (forth late 2016, Edward Elgar), co-edited with Prof Kati Kulovesi; and an Encyclopedia on Nature Conservation Law (forth March 2017, Edward Elgar), co-edited with Prof Jona Razzaque.
Industrial Relevance
Elisa has served as a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the European Commission, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In addition, Elisa has participated as an observer in international environmental negotiations, including under the CBD and on marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, since 2005.
Prior to joining academia, Elisa served as legal officer for FAO, advising over fifty countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the South Pacific on improving domestic legislation on natural resources; and as environmental management officer for UNDP in the Eastern Caribbean, working closely with the Global Environment Facility.
Academic / Professional qualifications
Elisa has a PhD in international law from the European University Institue and an LLM in Environmental Law from University College London. Since 2015 Elisa has also been holding the honorary post of Adjunct Professor of International and European Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland. Prior to joining Strathclyde University, Elisa was Professor of Global Environmental Law at Edinburgh University Law School, where she was based since 2009. Elisa has also taught at the Academy of Human Rights Law of the European University Institute, l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris, and Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, among others.
Elisa is the lead co-editor of the book series Legal Studies on Access and Benefit-sharing (Brill/Martinus Nijhoff), and on the Editorial Board of RECIEL, the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, Europe and The World: A Law Review, and Spring book series Legal Issues in Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies. She is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, the IUCN Global Specialist Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, the International Council of Environmental Law, and the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and Environment.
Expertise & Capabilities
Elisa has direct experience of international law-making in the areas of biodiversity, oceans and corporate environmental accountability; and of participatory reform of national legislation on natural resources (forests, fisheries, mountains, organic agriculture, wildlife).
Elisa speaks Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. She has conducted field work (for the UN or on academic research projects) in Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chile, Comoros, Croatia, Dominica, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, Grenada, Hungary, Jordan, Malaysia, Namibia, Niue, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, Syria, Tonga, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Uruguay.
External positions
Adjunct Professor of International and EU Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland
1 Mar 2015 → …Keywords
- International Environmental Law
- Biodiversity
- human rights
- EU environmental law
- comparative environmental law
- benefit-sharing
- equity
- oceans
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Projects 2016 2019
Inception Grant: GCRF One Ocean Hub
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
3/12/18 → 2/03/19
Project: Research
Development and application of guidance material for the implementation of international legal instruments related to biodiversity conservation in areas beyond national jurisdiction
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Project: Knowledge Exchange (Training / Short Course) › Knowledge Exchange (Training / Short Courses)
Selected Research Output 2004 2018
The need for an international legal concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing
Morgera, E., 31 May 2016, In : European Journal of International Law. 27, 2, p. 353-383 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Fair and equitable benefit-sharing at the cross-roads of the human right to science and international biodiversity law
Morgera, E., 21 Dec 2015, In : Laws. 4, 4, p. 803-831 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
EU Environmental Law
Morgera, E., 2014, European Union Law . Barnard & P. (eds.). p. 651-679 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Unraveling The Nagoya Protocol: A Commentary of the Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Morgera, E., Tsioumani, E. & Buck, M., 2014, (Legal Studies on Access and Benefit-sharing)Research output: Book/Report › Book
Environmental Integration in the EU’s External Relations: Beyond Multilateral Dimensions
Morgera, E. & Marin Duran, G., 2012, 380 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Corporate Accountability in International Environmental Law
Morgera, E., 2009, 336 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Selected Activities 2011 2018
UN Convention on Biological Diversity (External organisation)
Elisa Morgera (Advisor)Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law (Journal)
Elisa Morgera (Guest editor)Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Journal or guest editorship
European Commission (External organisation)
Elisa Morgera (Advisor)Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (External organisation)
Elisa Morgera (Advisor)Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (Publisher)
Elisa Morgera (Editor)Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial board member
UN Convention on Biological Diversity (External organisation)
Elisa Morgera (Member)Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee