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Collaborations:
- Asian Network on Trade
- Investment and Sustainability (ANTIS)
- Environmental Law Unit (UWE)
- IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
- Repair Acts( http://repairacts.net/)
- The Future of the Commons
- Rights of Rivers
- Rights of Nature
Research staff:
- Sustainability. Climate Injustice. Law Hacks. Creativity in Law. The Commons. International Investment Law. Globalisation. Trade and Natural Resources. Law and Development. Interntional Litigation and Private International law.
- Rights of Nature
- Transformative governance through rights of nature frameworks
Teaching staff:
- Qualifications:Lic. Derecho (UCM) MA (UCM) LLM (London)
- Position:Associate Professor of International Economic Law - School of Law
- Department:FBL - Law
- Telephone:+441173282323
- Email:Elena.Blanco@uwe.ac.uk
About me
I am an Associate Professor at the Bristol Law School. My work sits at the intersection between public and private international law, and revolves around coloniality, postcapitalism, rights of nature, regulation of corporate actors and the linked climate, environmental and democrac crises of neoliberal corporate globalisation. Against these I focus on place based, nature and community based solutions.
I hold law degrees from three different countries and worked in practice on international arbitration and litigation and as a consultant on Spanish Law.
I teach courses on International Environmental and Climate Change Law and Energy Law.
I am always happy to collaborate with new and established researchers and community organisations in multidisciplinary projects. Local engagement is high in my priorities.
I work acrosss three cross fertilising areas:
1. Rights of nature, communities and sustainability.
This interdiciplinary project focusses on reimagining river governance through river rights approaches. I work with local community organisations, river rights networks, artists, citizen scientists, local government and national and international partners on transforming river governance through participatory stakeholder informed processes.
2. Energy law and the next frontier of post-colonial appropiation.
3. Post-capitalism: Building sustainable futures through 'commons' approaches, cooperation, embodied local practice and resistance to injustice.
Outside academia I love sunny and warm places, the sea, travelling, dogs, wild beaches and abstract art.
Area of expertise
Rights of Rivers. Transforming river governance through rights of nature frameworks. Decolonial approaches to environmental law. International Investment Arbitration. Environmental Justice. Ecocide, genocide and climate change. Litigation against Multinational Companies
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