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Dr Evelyn Wang

Lecturer

Department: Northumbria Law School

Dr Evelyn (Li) Wang joined Northumbria Law School in January 2024. Evelyn holds a Ph.D in Law and an LL.M in International Law from Newcastle University. Her research is mainly about constitutional environmental mechanisms, such as state environmental duties and individuals' right to a healthy environment, especially from a comparative perspective. Evelyn has a general interest in all legal issues related to the environment and sustainability. In particular, areas of interest include environmental constitutionalism, human rights and the environment, China's ecological civilisation construction, comparative environmental governance, access to environmental justice and rights-based climate change litigation. She has presented at international and domestic conferences, and published on prestigious environmental law journals. Evelyn currently is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and teaches the following modules: Human Rights and Law Reform, English and European Legal Systems and Law and Society. Evelyn has recently been invited to deliver guest lectures at Fudan University Law School and School of Law, East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China.

Evelyn Wang

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Environmental Constitutionalism in China: A Constitution without Constitutionalism?, Wang, E. 1 Jul 2024, In: Journal of Environmental Law
  • Environmental Constitutionalism in China: A Constitution without Constitutionalism?, Wang, E. 26 Mar 2024, SLSA Conference
  • A beacon of hope for a troubled Earth? A critical analysis of China’s authoritarian approach to constructing ‘ecological civilization’, Wang, E. 6 Oct 2023, In: Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law
  • A beacon of hope for a troubled planet? A critical analysis on China’s authoritarian approach to constructing ‘ecological civilization’, Wang, E. 20 Oct 2022, 2022 Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance, Lund, Sweden, Earth System Governance Project
  • Addressing the Climate Crisis Through Procedural Environmental Rights in the Age of Information, Wang, E. 17 Jul 2021
  • Book Review: Environmental Rights: The Development of Standards, Wang, E. 1 Jun 2021, In: Environmental Law Review
  • Human Rights and the Environment: Legality, Indivisibility, Dignity and Geography, edited by James R. May & Erin Daly Edward Elgar, 2019, 616 pp, £215 hb, £172 ebk ISBN 9781788111454 hb, 9781788111461 ebk, Wang, E. 1 Jul 2021, In: Transnational Environmental Law
  • Lost in Implementation: The Gap between Rhetoric and Reality in the Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment, Wang, E. 19 Apr 2021, Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference
  • The Human Rights Responsibilities of States as a Result of Climate Change, Wang, E. 27 Jul 2021
  • From “Rhetorical” to “Juridical”: Human Rights Instruments Addressing Climate Change Based on the Development of Environmental Rights, Wang, E. 3 Dec 2020, Queen's University of Belfast Law Student Research Network Symposium

  • Law PhD March 28 2024
  • Law PGCert July 07 2020
  • Law LLM October 11 2017


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