About Us
Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice
Centre Co-Directors
David Whyte
David Whyte is Professor of Climate Justice at Queen Mary University of London. David’s research focusses on the relationship between law and corporate power. He is author of Ecocide: kill the corporation before it kills us (Manchester University Press, 2020 and Bella Terra, 2021).
david.whyte@qmul.ac.uk
Angela Sherwood
Angela Sherwood is Lecturer in Climate Crime and Climate Justice at Queen Mary University of London. Angela’s research interests lie in state violence and migration governance; environmental harm and population displacement; and the criminology of humanitarianism. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Refugee Studies and in several edited volumes on themes of state crime, displacement, and international migration.
a.sherwood@qmul.ac.uk
Richard A. Falk
Richard A. Falk is Chair of Global Law at Queen Mary University of London and Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University. Richard has been involved in writing about and bringing environmental crimes into the sphere of international law for 50 years and is one of the world’s leading experts on this subject. He is the author or co-author of more than 20 books about international law and human rights and has been United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian occupied territories.
rfalk@qmul.ac.uk
Centre Researchers
Laura Disley
Doctoral candidate, Law Department
Paddy Friend
Doctoral candidate, Law Department
Eleanor Godwin
Lecturer in Law
Samira Homerang Saunders
Research Officer
Stefanie Khoury
Affiliate Faculty, George Mason University
Monika Sobiecki
Doctoral candidate, Law Department
Guy Zilberman
Independent policy and legal researcher
Contributing Members
Isadora Bellati
Doctoral candidate, Law Department
Penny Green
Professor of Law and Globalisation and the founder of the Centre
Malgosia Fitzmaurice
Professor of International Law.
Neve Gordon
Professor of Human Rights
Sarah Keenan
Senior Lecturer (Land Law)
Hans Lindahl
Chair of Global Law
Mathilda Lorkin
Doctoral candidate, Law Department
Thomas MacManus
Senior Lecturer in State Crime
Daragh Murray
Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Bill Spence
Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics
Visiting Members
Ignasi Bernat
Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Centre.
Hilal Elver
Humanities and Social Sciences Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary.
Rory O’Neill
Visiting Professor at the Centre.
Natasha Walter
Honorary Professor at the Centre
