About the Editors

Julia Dehm is a Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Law, La Trobe University. Her research addresses urgent issues of international and domestic climate change and environmental law, natural resource governance and questions of human rights, economic inequality and social justice. Her books include Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Locating Nature: Making and Unmaking International Law (edited with Usha Natarajan) and Power, Participation and Private Regulatory Initiatives: Human Rights under Supply Chain Capitalism (edited with Daniel Brinks, Karen Engle and Kate Taylor). She was previously a consultant to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing assistance and a 2023 Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton.

Dr Nicole Graham is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney. Her convict and free-settler ancestors came to Australia from Ireland, Scotland and Northern England in the 18th and 19th centuries and occupied the unceded lands of the Eora, Wiradjuri and Muwinina nations. Nicole is renowned for her scholarship concerning the relationship between property rights, environmental change, place, and culture and author of Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law (2011) and co-editor of The Handbook of Property, Law, and Society (2023). She is collaborating on two ARC Discovery Projects: ‘Property as Habitat: reintegrating place, people and law’ with Professors Margaret Davies and Lee Godden, and ‘Tenants of the Soil: adapting agricultural land ownership in Australia’ with Professor Robyn Bartel. Nicole’s secondary field of research is legal education and the agency of education in addressing the social, professional, and institutional barriers to sustainable climate futures. She is is Co-Chair of Legal Education Associate Deans (LEAD), and has served as the Associate Dean of Education at Sydney Law School since 2021.

Zoe Nay is a PhD candidate at Melbourne Law School and a Research Fellow at Melbourne Climate Futures, both at the University of Melbourne. Zoe specialises in climate change law and the law of the sea, with a focus on issues of adaptation and loss and damage in the Pacific region. Zoe’s doctoral research examines the role of international law in providing legal redress for climate change-related loss and damage experienced by Pacific Island states. Zoe also works as a Research Assistant at La Trobe University on the project ‘Mainstreaming Climate Change in Legal Education’. In addition to her research work, Zoe is a member of the Academic Advisory Team of World’s Youth for Climate Justice – a global youth-led non-government organisation campaigning to seek an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice in relation to climate change and human rights.