Luisa Cortat

Luísa Cortat Simonetti Gonçalves Coutinho holds a PhD degree on International Environmental Law from Maastricht University (the Netherlands) and a PhD degree on Fundamental  Rights and Warranties from Vitoria Law School (Faculdade de Direito de Vitoria – FDV), where she also received has Masters and Bachelor degrees in Law. She specialized in Environment and Economics at the Federal University of Parana and was an Erasmus Mundus student at the University of Coimbra. She is currently a Course Director at the Academy of European Law – ERA, responsible for the Environmental Law portfolio.

She is also an (external) Research Associate at the United Nations University FLORES, where she was a visiting scholar in the past. Previously, she has worked as a Research Associate at the Global Governance Centre of the Graduate Institute Geneva, supervisor for Master students at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute, from Maastricht University, guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (currently, Luxembourg Centre for European Law). Luisa has also worked at FDV as lecturer, coordinator of extension activities, coordinator of institutional relations, and head of international relations office, and at the Secretary of State for the Environment and Water Resources of the State of Espirito Santo as legal coordinator. She has also served as civil diplomat representing Brazil in events like the IMF and World Bank Annual Meeting 2015 and the G20 Youth Summit Australia 2014, in this one as head delegate.

Luisa was granted several academic scholarships and awards, including the Green Talents Award, granted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to honor young researchers, recognizing their outstanding achievements in making our societies more sustainable.

She has several works published, in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, consultancies, and annals of events. Her areas of expertise include: plastics governance and related legal aspects, international and European environmental law, human rights, law and economics, public international law, environmental law, and constitutional law.

(September 2024)

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