Sandy Abrahams is a Partner at Lux Nova Partners and specialises in clean and low carbon energy projects in the UK and internationally and UK climate change legislation. She is actively involved in policy development in the UK, a Legal Advisor to the LRI initiate providing legal advice to participants in the UNFCCC negotiations, a former UKELA Wild Law group co-convenor, and Trustee and pro-bono legal advisor to PfP Global. She has now founded Law with Ethics in an effort to bring a baseline of environmental and social ethics to professional practice. 

Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw Bt QC, Westwater Advocates, specialises in Rural Land and Environmental Law. Recent significant cases include the Cairngorm Funicular Case, Cairngorms Campaign v CNPA, Sustainable Shetland v Scottish Ministers, JMT v Scottish Ministers, Friends of Loch Etive v Argyll & Bute Council and Douglas v Perth & Kinross Council. He acted for the Concerned Communities of Falkirk in Dart (Europe) Ltd’s application to extract coal bed methane near Falkirk. He was involved in various scientific and mountaineering expeditions to Greenland, the Antarctic, the Chilean Andes and the Himalayas. He was a Patron of UKELA (2010 to 2018) and a Trustee of the John Muir Trust for 16 years.

Simon Boyle is an environmental lawyer who has worked in private practice, local government and industry. In 2005 he helped to start the wild law programme in UKELA and has been involved in wild law since then. In 2004 he was a founder member of Argyll Environmental which sponsors the UKELA Wild Law weekends. He is a chapter author of the book Wilderness Protection in Europe. He spends his free time backpacking and climbing in mountain areas.

Dr Helen Dancer is a Lecturer in Law and AHRC Leadership Fellow at Sussex Law School. Her research interests centre on the legal and cultural dimensions of people-nature relationships. She is currently engaged in a two-year research project Reimagining the Law of the Forest, in partnership with Forest Research and the Woodland Trust, which includes extensive fieldwork in the New Forest and alternative visions for law and governance in the context of English forests and woodlands.

Dr Bonnie Holligan is a Lecturer in Property Law at the University of Sussex. Her current research explores the commodification of environment and the creation of markets in environmental goods and services. Recent publications have considered proposals for introduction of a conservation covenant in England and Wales, and property issues in the EU Emissions Trading System.

Manuela Ima is a Waorani woman and leader, entrepreneur, visionary and craftswoman with the desire to help Waorani women and thus be able to preserve the knowledge of grandmothers. She also believes in innovation, where her knowledge and crafts can break any way of thinking, such as the notion that by being made by Indigenous women, something has less value. She is also a photographer and for her, photography is important in order to remember the beautiful places of the jungle and keep the memory of animals and birds singing, making her feel healthy being in the mystical jungle.

Donald McGillivray is Professor of Environmental Law at Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, UK where he teaches environmental and property law. He is currently Head of the Law School. He is co-author (with Stuart Bell, Ole Pedersen, Emma Lees and Elen Stokes) of Environmental Law (Oxford University Press, 9th ed., 2017). He is on the Academic Panel of Francis Taylor Buildings, Barristers Chambers, London.

Jojo Mehta With degrees from Oxford and London Universities and a background in communication, entrepreneurship and on-the-ground environmental activism, Jojo Mehta co-founded UK non-profit Ecological Defence Integrity with barrister and legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins in 2017 to support the establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court. To crowdfund for this they launched Stop Ecocide, where supporters declare themselves Earth Protectors and contribute to a globally validated Trust Fund. Jojo is key spokeswoman for the campaign.

Paul Powlesland is a practising barrister and environmental activist. His deep love of the natural world and the pain he felt at its increasing destruction led him to founding Lawyers for Nature to represent the natural world and all who are seeking to defend it. He has also been involved in Extinction Rebellion since the first declaration of rebellion and is seeking to bring its principles into the legal profession through 'Lawyers for XR'. Paul lives on a boat and set up the River Roding Trust to restore and give rights to the river he lives on in East London.

Mothiur Rahman was previously a public law & planning solicitor at Bircham Dyson Bell. He co-founded the Community Chartering Network and is now setting up a legal innovation lab called New Economy Law.  He has written articles on his work and campaigning; has spoken at a number of  universities, conferences and campaigning networks; is on the advsiory committee for the Art/Law Network  and is currently writing a chapter for a US student textbook commissioned by the Earth Law Centre.

Irene Watson belongs to the Tanganekald, Meintangk – Bunganditj Peoples of the Coorong and south-east of South Australia and has been an advocate and activist for land rights and self-determination for many years. Irene has worked as a legal practitioner, and academic publishing extensively on questions of Aboriginal Peoples rights and colonialism, Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law, (Routledge 2015) and Indigenous Peoples as Subjects in International Law, (Routledge 2018). Irene is currently Professor of Law, PVC Aboriginal Leadership and Strategy at the University of South Australia.

Tom West is UK Environment Lead at environmental law NGO, ClientEarth, where he has worked since January 2016. He has been closely engaged in work undertaken to defend and rebuild the UK’s environmental constitution as a result of leaving the EU. Before joining ClientEarth, Tom completed a PhD at the University of Nottingham entitled ‘Human and Nonhuman Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection in International Law’. 

Farhana Yamin is an internationally recognised environmental lawyer, climate change policy expert and activist. She has provided high-level advice to leaders of vulnerable countries, and was lead author of three IPCC assessment reports. She founded Track 0 with the mission to translate the global target of net-zero emissions by 2050 into practice. She is Coordinator of XR’s Political Strategy Team and was arrested in April 2019 for gluing herself to Shell HQ. She is a member of XR’s International Solidarity Network, an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Senior Advisor for Systemiq, Trustee for Greenpeace-UK and Julie's Bicycle, and a member WWF-UK’s Programme Committee.