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Staff Profile

Dr Sakshi Sakshi

Lecturer in Law and Social Justice

Background

Sakshi joined Newcastle Law School as a lecturer in September 2022. Before joining Newcastle, she completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her thesis examined comparative Indigenous environmental litigation in Australia, Brazil, and Canada. She also obtained an MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge and read for the BCL at the University of Oxford (2014-15).

Research


My research areas include comparative environmental law, plural sovereignties, legal geography, Marxist legal theory and political economy, nonhuman legal personhood, and jurisprudence. My work and several of my collaborations are interdisciplinary. I am currently working on:

  • Plural sovereignties and rethinking property law
  • Valuing Biodiversity in Courts
  • Legalisation of Climate Change Science and Evidence in Courts

My new research project is titled Plural Sovereignties and Climate Justice in the Anthropocene.

Teaching
I teach seminars in land law, constitutional law and law and ethics.