Elisa Morgera

Elisa Morgera
Born (1977-03-04) 4 March 1977 (age 47)
Trieste, Italy
NationalityItalian
EducationUniversity of Trieste, University College London and the Italian European University Institute
OccupationAcademic
Known forUN Special Rapporteur on human rights and climate change
PredecessorIan Fry of Tuvalu

Elisa Morgera (born 4 March 1977) is an Italian professor, working in Scotland (in 2023), who became the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and climate change in 2024.

Life

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Morgera was born in Trieste[1] and she graduated from her local university in law. She was unsure of her future career until she discovered environmental law while studying in Belgium as part of her first degree. This was a revelation as she thought she had chosen to ignore the environment to study law. She decided to move to environmental law[1] and she obtained her master's degree in that subject at University College London before working for the United Nations. Her doctorate in International Law was gained at the European University Institute in Italy[2] and she again worked for the UN.[1]

In 2009 she joined Edinburgh University where she became the Professor of Global Environmental Law.[3] From 2013 to 2016, she led an £800K research programme (BENELEX) to see how international law could be used to ensure that the benefits of moving to a green economy could be shared fairly.[4] In 2015 she joined the University of Eastern Finland as an adjunct Professor of International and European Environmental Law.[3]

Morgera has used a Transformative research model at the One Ocean Hub which was one of twelve research units funded by UK Research and Innovation. She led this group from 2019 and it involved about 100 researchers in different countries. It initially had a ten-year model from its creation in c.2018 but it was drawn to a close after its first five years.[1] Morgera has argued that human rights can be the key to her work. In March 2024 she was chosen from 50 applicants[5] to succeed Ian Fry as the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change.[6] She was chosen on the same day as several other rapporteurs including Astrid Puentes Riaño who looks at human rights and the environment and the Colombian Gina Romero who is an expert on the human rights of free association.[7]

Morgera became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2023.[8]

Publications include

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  • Environmental Integration in the EU's External Relations: Beyond Multilateral Dimensions, 2012 (with Gracia Marin Durán)[9]
  • Benefit-sharing for an equitable transition to the green economy - the role of Law (BENELEX), c. 2016, (Morgera et al)
  • Corporate Environmental Accountability in International Law , 2020[10]
  • Fair and Equitable Benefit-sharing in International Law, 2024[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "The inspiring professor and a Glasgow research hub that's cleaning up our seas". The Herald. 18 March 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Elisa Morgera becomes UN special rapporteur". Scottish Legal News. 9 April 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  3. ^ a b "morgera elisa professor | University of Strathclyde". www.strath.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Benefit-sharing for an equitable transition to the green economy - the role of Law (BENELEX)". University of Edinburgh Research Explorer. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Law professor named UN's only Scotland-based special rapporteur". The National. 8 April 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Current and former mandate holders (existing mandates) Valid as of 1 May 2024". OHCHR. 1 May 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  7. ^ swissinfo.ch, S. W. I. (5 April 2024). "La colombiana Gina Paola Romero, nueva relatora de la ONU para la libertad de asociación". SWI swissinfo.ch (in European Spanish). Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  8. ^ Telford, Sam (21 March 2023). "Leading thinkers and practitioners elected as RSE Fellows". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  9. ^ Durán, Gracia Marín; Morgera, Elisa (16 March 2012). Environmental Integration in the EU's External Relations: Beyond Multilateral Dimensions. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84731-918-0.
  10. ^ Morgera, Elisa (2020). Corporate Environmental Accountability in International Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-873804-6.
  11. ^ Morgera, Elisa (9 May 2024). Fair and Equitable Benefit-sharing in International Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-260673-0.
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