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.

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Key Publications

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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
Climate change response mechanisms and the risk of increasing vulnerability: conceptual background and pathways of change, Behnassi, M., Ramachandran, G., Gill, G. 2022, The Climate-Conflict-Migration Nexus from a Human Security Perspective, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
Consolidated report on climate change, decarbonisation and net-zero agenda, NERC, Gill, G. 2022

Current and Recent Projects

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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

Professional Activity

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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
Invited talk: Gender, Indigeneity and Environmental Decision-making: Voices and choices 2023
Invited talk: National Green Tribunal: An Indian Perspective organised by Environment and Land Court Nairobi, Kenya 2023
Invited talk: Legal research and publication: some reflections’ at the Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad India 2023
Invited talk: The role and purpose of law: opportunities and challenges in the post covid times’ at the Foundation Day Celebration, Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad India 2023
Oral presentation: • Legal research and publication: some reflections 2023
Invited talk: Climate Change litigation in the global south, Centre for Economic and Environmental Law, Beihang University, China 2023

PGR Supervision

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