Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. She holds an LL.M from Yale, and a D.Phil and B.C.L. from Oxford.
She was previously a University Lecturer in Environmental Law, and Fellow & Director of Studies in Law at Queens’ College, Cambridge, where she lectured in international and European environmental law, international law and tort.
Professor Rajamani is author of the Oxford University Press monograph titled, 'Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law'. In it she studies the industrial–developing country dynamic in the creation and implementation of international environmental law. She looks in particular at the global effort to combat climate change through the Kyoto Protocol, 1997. She is also co-editor of  'Implementation of International Environmental Law' (Hague Academy of International Law, 2011), 'Promoting Compliance in an Evolving Climate Regime' (CUP, 2011), and 'Climate Change Liability: Transnational Law and Practice' (CUP, 2011).
She has written on legal issues relating to the environment, international law, and human rights, in academic journals including the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Journal of Environmental Law, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, Journal of the Indian Law Institute, and the Economic and Political Weekly. She has written working papers for the World Bank, UNFCCC, UNDP and Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and features in periodicals such as Seminar, Economic and Political Weekly, Down to Earth, TIEMPO, Third World Resurgence and numerous broadsheets. She serves on the editorial board of the Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (RECIEL), Climate Law, Climate and Development, Journal of Environmental Law, and Journal of Natural Resources and Energy Law.
She has worked as a consultant to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat, the Danish Ministry of Climate Change and Energy, the UNDP, the World Bank, the Alliance of Small Island States, and the International Institute of Sustainable Development.

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