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Professor Gita Gill

Professor

Department: Northumbria Law School

Professor Gitanjali Nain Gill (Gita Gill) is a tenured full professor of environmental law at the Northumbria School of Law, Northumbria University, UK. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Her research interest and published work in leading peer-reviewed journals forms a coherent body reflecting the thematic issues including access to environmental justice, climate change, biodiversity, land rights, SDGs and sustainability with a focus on India.

Professor Gill is a receipient of prestigious research grants including Responsible AI UK Keystone Project (2024-2028), AHRC BRAID Scoping to Embed AI in Context (2023), British Academy Grants (2013-16; 2020-2023); and NERC Grant on climate change and UK's Decarbonisation Agenda (2022)

She has acted as an expert academic advisor to prestigious international organisations including the Sabin Centre Peer Review Network on Climate Change Litigation (National Rapporteur on India's Climate Change Litigation), Columbia Law School, New York. She has provided intellectual and disciplinary expertise by identifying and contributing specialised environmental courts and tribunals best practices, these being particularly instructive for the global south, to the United Nations Environment Programme (2016 and 2022)and the United Nations Expert Consultation Group OHCHR Accountability and Remedy Project 11.

Through awareness and capacity-building empowerment programmes, Gita's action research helps build coalitions, trust and confidence between Indian NGOs and marginalised communities to support victims of environmental degradation.

Presently, her research is focusing on menstrual waste, law and sustainability in India.

 

Gita Gill

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Climate change: new method can more accurately attribute environmental harm to individual polluters, Yadav, S., Gill, G. 1 Aug 2025
  • Food Systems and Biodiversity in the Context of Environmental and Climate Risks: Dynamics and Evolving Solutions, Behnassi, M., Baig, M., Gupta, ., Sabbahi, R., Gill, G., Mahjoub, E. 11 Sep 2025
  • Legal Archaeology: Reconstructing a Case Study of the Gujarat High Court Bullet Train Judgment, Gill, G. 17 Sep 2025, In: Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
  • Climate Change and India’s Cities: Judicial Responses through the Lens of Sustainability Transformations, Gill, G. May 2024, In: Climate Law
  • Environmental public hearings and intersectionality: women's voices from Gujarat, India, Gill, G., Joshi, F. 1 Jun 2024, In: Journal of Law and Society
  • Ethical review to support Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) in policing: A preliminary study of West Midlands Police's specialist data ethics review committee, Oswald, M., Paterson-Young, C., McBride, P., Maher, M., Calder, M., Gill, G., Tiarks, E., Noble, W. 11 Sep 2024
  • India’s National Green Tribunal: Quo Vadis?, Gill, G. 30 Oct 2024, Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Asia-Pacific, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill Academic Publishers
  • National Green Tribunal and the Environment, Gill, G. 18 Jul 2024, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India, Oxford, Oxford University Press
  • Comments from the Sabin Center Peer Reviewer Network to the ‘Study on the Impact of Climate Change on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Africa, Alarcón, M., Gill, G., Gupta, M., Ichihara, M., Ladan, M., Lupin, D., Mballa, F., De Spiegeleir, A., Tigre, M., Wadiwala, Z. 7 Dec 2023
  • 第 印度环境法, Gill, G. Aug 2023, 外国环境法, Beijing, China, China Social Science Press

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Climate Change and Decarbonisation: 'Interdisciplinary Hopping' to strengthen enablers and tackle barriers to a green transition., Gill, G. (Principal Investigator), Natural Environment Research Council, 01/01/22 - 31/03/22, 0.00
  • Land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement of vulnerable poor communities: criticalities and scrutiny of law in Gujarat, India, Gill, G. (Principal Investigator), British Academy, 01/02/21 - 31/07/22, £10,000.00
  • The National Green Tribunal, India: A reform for Environmental Justice, Gill, G. (Principal Investigator), British Academy, 15/06/14 - 14/11/15, £7,920.00

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Invited talk: Menstrual Waste Management: Policy and Implementation in India (Distingished Speaker) 2025
  • Invited talk: Exploring the Socio-Legal in Environmental Law: Reflections and Tribulations on my Research Journey 2025
  • Invited talk: Rights of Nature in the Global South with a focus on Indian jurisprudence (Keynote Speaker) 2025
  • Invited talk: Enforcement of Environmental Rights in Courts: Evolving Strategies (Keynote Speaker) 2025
  • Invited talk: Rights of Nature in the Global South (Keynote Speaker) 2025
  • Invited talk: Environmental Laws and their enforcement through courts 2025
  • Invited talk: Litigating Plastification in the Global South 2025
  • Invited talk: Environmental public hearing in India: The need for a corrective gender-balance legal framework to promote environmental justice 2025
  • Invited talk: Rights of Nature in the Global South 2025
  • Other: Shaping better judicial and procedural practices: a comparative India-Kenya environmental justice system review (Principal Investigator RIS Internal Funding Research Project- £9,009.00) 2024

  • Dac Nguyen Land valuation in compulsory acquisition in Vietnam: a socio-legal analysis through the lens of equity and equivalence Start Date: 01/10/2023
  • Luke Johnson Ecocide: Tracing the Process from Concept to Courtroom Start Date: 25/04/2022 End Date: 07/08/2025

Law PhD September 01 1999


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