Dr Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli
Dr Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law and the Deputy Director of its Climate Law and Governance Centre. Leslie-Anne is a public international lawyer, with research interests in environmental, climate and energy law. Her scholarship covers the ambiguous role played by environmental principles, the global legal implications of the clean energy transition and the role of citizens’ assemblies in the making of climate law and policy. She is the author of The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and the co-editor (with Veerle Heyvaert) of the Research Handbook on Transnational Environmental Law(Edward Elgar, 2020).
Merrow Golden
Merrow Golden is a barrister at Francis Taylor Building specialising in planning and environmental law. She regularly advises on environmental matters, particularly concerning climate change impacts, and has been ranked as a “rising star” in both Environment and Planning sectors (Legal 500 2022). She also has a background in international law, having specialised in public international law during her LLM at Columbia Law School and having interned for the Codification Division of the UN’s Office of Legal Affairs and the UK Mission to the UN.
Lois Lane
Lois has a PhD in medieval history and spent several years working in housing and planning policy roles for the National Housing Federation and CPRE, The Countryside Charity, before completing the GDL last year. She is currently taking the Bar Course at City Law School and will be starting pupillage at Cornerstone Barristers in October 2022. She is hoping to build a public law practice with a focus on planning and environmental work and has a particular interest in nature conservation.
Emma Lui
Emma is a Policy Advisor at the Office for Nuclear Regulation. She is also a trustee to the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA), an Advisory Board member to Public Interest Environmental Law (PIEL) UK and a volunteer contributor to the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) public blog. Emma is a non-practising barrister and has an LLM with Distinction in Environmental and Public Law. She was named on the ENDS Report inaugural Power List in 2022 as one of the 100 UK environmental professionals who have made the greatest impact in the last two years for her work with UKELA on improving diversity and inclusion in the environmental legal sector.
Simon Milnes
Simon Milnes is a barrister at Twenty Essex Chambers, who specialises in both commercial and international environmental disputes. He holds a LLM in Environmental Law and previously worked as an attorney fellow at The Nature Conservancy. He has acted in cases at the crossover of human rights and environmental law, and is currently part of the counsel team in Billy et al v Australia, a ground-breaking petition by indigenous Torres Strait Islanders about climate change impacts in Australia’s Torres Strait.
Chatura Saravanan
Chatura Saravanan is a BVS student at City Law School. She completed her undergraduate degree, with an integrated Masters, in Chemical Engineering MEng (Hons). She then went on to study the Graduate Diploma in Law at City Law School with a view to specialising in planning and environmental law at the Bar. She was a member of the Marketing and Communications committee at PIEL UK 2021 and helped host the PIEL 2021 Conference. Currently, she is a member of the Environmental Policy Clinic at City Law School, working with other students to identify how London boroughs are implementing policies to tackle climate change, especially in light of the recent COP26.
