Faculty LLM or MLS

Professor Dr. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger PhD ad eund (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), MEM (Yale), BCL & LLB (McGill), BA Hons (Carl/UVic) FRSC FRSA WIJA is an award-winning expert jurist and professor of law and governance on sustainable development. She serves as the Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy at the University of Cambridge. Professor Cordonier Segger has years of experience advising the UN, international organizations, and nations on implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. She is the Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development, Executive Secretary of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Chair of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's Biodiversity Law and Governance Initiative.

Dr. Jocelyn Stacey is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law. She researches environmental crises and the visible and invisible ways in which law creates, regulates and prevents these events. Her work focuses on disaster law, climate change, emergency powers and the rule of law. Her first book, The Constitution of the Environmental Emergency (Hart Publishing, 2018) addresses what the rule of law requires in light of our vulnerability to catastrophic environmental harm. As a national expert on emergencies and Canadian law, she served on the Research Council for the Public Order Emergency Commission (2022-2023), which inquired into the first invocation of Canada’s Emergencies Act.

Justice Preston is the Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales.  Prior to being appointed in November 2005, he was a senior counsel practising primarily in New South Wales in environmental, planning, administrative and property law. He has lectured in post-graduate environmental law for over 30 years. He is the author of Australia’s first book on environmental litigation and 155 articles, book chapters and reviews on environmental law, administrative and criminal law.

Dr Judith Preston is a solicitor admitted to practice in New South Wales and the Northern Territory, since 1982. She holds a BA LLB from Macquarie University (1981) and a MEL from the University of Sydney (1994). Judith commenced work with the Northern Land Council (NLC) primarily representing Aboriginal Traditional owners in land claims in the Northern Territory and related to the needs of Aboriginal communities in the NLC area. She was instrumental in establishing the first public interest environmental law centre, the Environmental Defender’s Office (EDO), in NSW in 1984-85. Judith then worked in a number of leading legal practices including Baker & McKenzie, DLA Piper and undertook a range of commercial matters which included litigation.

Professor Craig has held a Research Chair as Professor of Desert Knowledge, Charles Darwin University. She was appointed Professor of Environmental Law (Western Sydney University (2009 - 2021) and Honorary Professor at the University of Waikato (2021 - 2024). She is a specialist in international, comparative, and national environmental law. She was one of the earliest academics to specialise in environmental law (from 1976) and has researched and taught across a wide range of environmental law areas and jurisdictions. In particular, she was a pioneer in the development of curricula and teaching in Comparative Environmental Law (focusing on the Asia and Pacific Regions), International Environmental Law, Sustainable Development Law, Corporate Environmental Law, Australian Environmental and Planning Law and Comparative Indigenous Governance Regimes.

Mr. Chencho Norbu has a Masters Degree in Science from Cornell University, Ithaca- USA. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture major in Soil Science from Central Luzon State University, the Philippines, and graduated with cum laude. He served the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests for more than two decades. He was the first Program Director of the National Soil Services Center, and then went to serve as the Director of the Department of Agriculture, and Director General of the Department of Forests and Park Services. He also served as the Secretary to the National Environment Commission Secretariat, and the Secretary to the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement of the Royal Government of Bhutan.

Nima Dorji is one of the founding faculty members of Bhutan’s first law school and a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria, Canada. Prior to joining JSW School of Law, he worked as a Legal Officer at Bhutan National Legal Institute (BNLI), Bhutan’s Judicial Academy, and he was one of the founding staff of the institute. Nima received his Master of Laws from University of Canberra in Australia, Bachelor of Law and Arts from NALSAR University of Law in India, and Postgraduate Diploma in National Law (PGDNL) from Royal Institute of Management, Bhutan. Nima’s research examines the intersection between law and happiness more generally and in particular the relationship between happiness and constitutionalism. Nima was a founding editorial member of Bhutan’s first law journal (Bhutan Law Review), and he is Editor-in-Chief of the recently launched Journal of Gross National Happiness (GNH) and Law published by JSW Law Publishing Series.

Deborah Curran is a Professor at the University of Victoria in the Faculty of Law and School of Environmental Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences), and the Executive Director of the Environmental Law Centre where she works with students on environmental law cases for community and Indigenous organizations across British Columbia, Canada. Deborah’s work is in the areas of land and water law, with a particular focus on environmental protection and collaborative governance, municipal sustainability, healthy foodscapes, and how Indigenous law is shaping colonial law. Deborah has spent the past 20 years working with local governments on sustainable communities and green bylaws, and teaches a national field course in Reconciliation, Ecology and Place-based Law.

Jolene Lin is Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is also Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Environmental Law. Her research focuses on climate change law. Her recent publications includeGoverning Climate Change: Global Cities and Transnational Lawmaking (Cambridge University Press 2018), Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific (Cambridge University Press 2020) and Litigating Climate Change in the Global South (Oxford University Press in 2024, forthcoming). She is on the editorial boards of Journal of Environmental Law, Transnational Environmental Law and the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law. At NUS, Jolene teaches tort law and climate change law. She taught at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in Fall 2023. She received the NUS Faculty of Law’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2020 and 2023 in recognition of her passionate commitment to teaching.