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Aditi Shetye

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Aditi works as a researcher in Public International Law & Environmental Law at BIICL. She specialises in international environmental law and climate change law. Her current work focuses on the Global Perspectives on Corporate Climate Litigation Project in developing the comparative toolbox and other projects on international environmental law.

Aditi also sits on the steering committee and is the Legal Advocacy Co-ordinator for the World's Youth for Climate Justice (WYCJ), a global youth-led initiative for the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion (ICJAO) initiative led by the Government of Vanuatu. She has contributed to the Youth Climate Justice Handbook including the Status Report on Principles of International and Human Rights Law Relevant to Climate Change published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. She is a member of the IUCN, World Commission for Environmental Law (WCEL), Early Career Specialist Group, and the Climate Change Law Specialist Group (CCLSG). She has conducted research for the Ozone Secretariat, United Nations Environment Program. After qualifying as a lawyer in India, Aditi practiced civil and criminal litigation and worked as a judicial clerk at the Bombay High Court with Justice Revati Mohite-Dere and Justice M.S. Karnik.

She holds an LL.M in Global Environmental Law and Governance from the University of Strathclyde Glasgow for which she received the Dean's International Excellence Award: Humanities and Social Sciences. She also holds a Post-graduate Diploma in National Environmental Law and Policy from National Law University Delhi, and a B.L.S./LL.B from the University of Mumbai.

 

Aditi Shetye

Researcher in Public International Law and Environmental Law

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