2026
What is Strasbourg’s Theory of Environmental Human Rights?
(2026) Journal of Environmental Law
About
I am a Lecturer in Law at Lancaster University Law School.
My main areas of research currently are human rights law, environmental law, and legal theory. I also take an interest in public law and tort law. My work has been published in a number of leading law journals, including: International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Human Rights Law Review, Journal of Environmental Law, Public Law, European Human Rights Law Review, and ECHR Law Review.
My main research project at present is theorising the relationship between the environment and human rights law. This project proceeds on the basis that the 2020s have become a pivotal decade for environmental human rights law, particularly with respect to climate change. Overall, my aim is to contribute to an ongoing effort to create the social conditions in which international human rights bodies can give effect to a more coherent and balanced vision of environmental human rights law.
Publications
Journal articles
2025
The Limits of Climate Change Litigation in the European Court of Human Rights
(2025) European Convention on Human Rights Law Review
2023
Proportionality, Stringency and Utility in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
(2023) Human Rights Law Review
Strasbourg’s Views on the Modern Mirror Principle: Shattering the Mirror?
[2023] Public Law
2022
Hard Cases, Bad Law: How Philosophising Could Help the ECtHR to Achieve Completeness and Coherence
[2022] European Human Rights Law Review
A Utilitarian Account of Article 3 ECHR
(2022) European Convention on Human Rights Law Review
2021
Why Completeness and Coherence Matter for the European Court of Human Rights
(2021) European Convention on Human Rights Law Review
Case notes
2025
Unforeseeably Making Matters Worse: An Issue of Notional or Factual Duty?
(2025) Cambridge Law Journalwith Fraser Dixon
2023
A Grand Unified Theory for the “Close Connection Test” in Vicarious Liability Cases
(2023) Cambridge Law Journalwith William Peck
2022
Efobi v Royal Mail Group: Much Ado About Nothing?
(2022) Modern Law Reviewwith Josephine Rendall-Neal
Chapters and entries
2022
Mill on Justice
in Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (2022)
Blog posts
2024
Klimaseniorinnen: The Innovative and the Orthodox
(EJIL:Talk!, 2024)
2023
The Bill of Rights Bill and the Modern Mirror Principle
(UK Constitutional Law Association, 2023)
Resources
2026
Colour Tables
Supplementary material for an article forthcoming in the International & Comparative Law Quarterly
Two colour-coded tables. The first compares five theories of environmental human rights (greening existing rights, quasi standalone rights, limited standalone rights, expansive standalone rights, and the ecocentric reconceptualisation of rights) across scope, threats, right-holders, stringency and extent of obligations. The second maps six bodies (CCPR, ICJ, ECtHR, ACmHPR, CESCR and IACtHR) onto those theories.
Contact
Email[email protected]