Giulia Sajeva

Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance (SCELG), University of Strathclyde

Giulia Sajeva is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellow at the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, under Prof. Elisa Morgera’s supervision. Her two years project on Rights for Ecosystem Services: a framework to protect the environment and sustainable local communities in the EUaims at developing an innovative theoretical and legal framework – labelled Rights for Ecosystems Services (RES) – to guide policy and legal developments towards reducing the risk of local communities abandoning their sustainable practices due to the lack of effective protection. Giulia Sajeva is a researcher whose background builds, mostly, on legal theory and concentrates on human rights and the conservation of the environment. Giulia has Master in Conservation Science (Imperial College London), a Master in Global Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy (Università degli Studi di Genova), and a PhD in human rights from the Law Department of the Università degli Studi di Palermo for which she researched the biocultural rights of indigenous peoples and local communities. On this topic, she recently published her first book When Rights Embrace Responsibilities. Biocultural Rights and the Conservation of Environment with Oxford University Press.