CAO MingdeCAO Mingde, Distinguished Professor at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Ph.D of law at China Academy of Social Sciences, Vice President of China Association of Environmental Resources Law Research, member of the Advisory Committee at the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the P.R.C., Director of Climate Change and Natural Resources Law Research Center at CUPL, legal expert of All China Environment Federation (ACEF). He was a visiting scholar at Pace Law School from 2005 to 2006, Faculty of Law University of British Columbia 2012. He has earned LLM from Vermont Law School, and SJD from Elisabeth Law School at Pace University in U.S. He was honored the National Ten Outstanding Young Jurists Award in China by China Law Society in 2006. His area is environmental law, particularly specializing in energy and climate change law.

Carmen G. Gonzalez is a professor of law at Seattle University School of Law. She has published widely in the areas of international environmental law, human rights and the environment, environmental justice, trade and the environment, and food security. Professor Gonzalez was a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina, a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow, a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and a visiting professor at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China. She served as the George Soros Visiting Chair at the Central European University School of Public Policy in Budapest, Hungary in Spring 2017 and as the Norton Rose Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Houston Law Center in Fall 2017. Professor Gonzalez is member of the Board of Trustees of Earthjustice, and past president of the Environmental Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. She has worked on environmental law capacity-building projects in Asia, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union, and has represented non-governmental organizations in environmental treaty negotiations. Professor Gonzalez is the co-editor of the highly acclaimed book, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Utah State University Press, 2012). She is also the co-editor of International Environmental Law and the Global South (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Professor Gonzalez holds a BA from Yale University and a JD from Harvard Law School.

José Rubens Morato Leite is a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Santa Catarina/Brazil, within which he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate (MSc and PhD) courses on environmental law and related subjects. He is also a fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq/Brazil), the President of the Law for a Green Planet Institute (Brazilian Non-Profit Organization) and the Coordinator of the "Environmental Law and Ecological Politics in the World Risk Society" Research Group at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. 

Mr. Morato Leite holds an MSc degree in Law from the University College London/UK and a PhD in Environmental Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, with a doctoral internship at the Faculty of Law from the University of Coimbra/Portugal. Besides, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Alicante/Spain (from 2013 to 2014), at the University of Florida/U.S. (from 2008 to 2009) and at the Centre of Environmental Law – Macquarie University/Australia (from 2005 to 2006). 

Furthermore, he has done research in a wide range of topics including civil liability for environmental damages, environmental hermeneutics, constitutional environmental law, biodiversity law and solid waste law; acting as a coordinator of research projects - supported and funded by governmental bodies such as the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES/Brazil) and the CNPq - within these subjects. 

He has also published several books, book's chapters and peer-reviewed articles in environmental law related topics. The full list of publications is available at http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4781165U6&idiomaExibicao=2.

Atty. Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio is a lecturer at the University of Cebu in the Philippines teaching environmental law, public and private international law, legal research and writing, and human rights law. At the same time, she is the Faculty Adviser and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Research in Law and Policy. She is also one of the faculty members who acts as official representative to the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (IUCNAEL). She is also a member of IUCN’s World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL). She is also one of the founders and managing trustee of the Philippine Earth Justice Center, Inc. (PEJC), which has filed several environmental cases in the Philippines, including the landmark decision of the Supreme Court in Resident Marine Mammals and Dolphins vs. Reyes where she is one of the two lawyers who were recognized as the stewards of the dolphins and whales of Tañon Strait Protected Seascape in Central Philippines against illegal oil exploration in a protected seascape.

Melissa Powers is an Associate Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School.  She teaches energy law, climate change law, the Clean Air Act, torts, and administrative law. Her research interests include energy law (with a specific focus on laws designed to promote renewable energy), domestic policies aimed at mitigating climate change, and U.S. pollution control laws. She is also interested in comparative law study in each of these areas.

Melissa is a Governing Board member of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, representing the North American and Caribbean region.  She was the co-chair of the Research Committee of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law and is currently the ex-officio representative from the Governing Board serving on the Research Committee.  Melissa has also taught as a visiting professor at several schools, including the University of Trento, Italy, in 2008, 2011 and 2012, the University of Navarra, Spain, in 2011, and the University of Maine School of Law in 2007.

Melissa began her legal career as an attorney at public interest environmental law firms doing pollution control litigation. From 2003-2008, Melissa was a Clinical Professor at the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center (PEAC), the environmental law clinic at Lewis & Clark.

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