Dr Angeliki Papantoniou, Member of the Athens Bar Association

Profile

Angeliki’s main areas of expertise are Environmental Law, Climate Change Law, International Law of the Sea, and Human Rights. Her academic research focuses on environmental law and children’s rights. Her monograph “Children and the Environment: Pathways to Legal Protection” was published in 2022. Her research interests, also, include climate change law, the right to health, indigenous people’s rights, intergenerational equity, and refugee law.

She is the LLM course convenor for Climate Change Law and the International Law of the Sea at Queen Mary University London.

Moreover, she is an advocate, member of the Athens Bar Association, with practice experience in refugee law, administrative law, and environmental law.

Angeliki has collaborated with organisations, institutions, and governments, in relation to the protection of the environment and children’s rights, such as the Greek Council for Refugees and One Ocean Hub and has participated in the effort of the UNCRC Committee to draft the forthcoming General Comment on Children’s Rights and the Environment (no.26).

Finally, Angeliki has a PhD in law (QMUL), an LLM in Environmental Law (QMUL), an LLM in Public International Law (UCL) and an LLB (UCL).

Undergraduate Teaching

• Land Law
• Equity and Trusts

Postgraduate Teaching

• Climate Change Law
• International Law of the Sea

Research

Publications

• 'Children and the Environment: Concepts of Legal Protection’ Brill 2022
• A healthy marine environment for children: A due diligence obligation under international law? ( forthcoming)
• ‘Greece’s new energy and climate strategy. A story of hope?’ chapter in Climate Change and the Future of Europe Views from the Capitals, Springer 2022
• ‘Intergenerational Equity in Times of Climate Change Legal Action. Moving towards a greater protection of human health?’’ κεφάλαιο στο βιβλίο της Stefania Negri (ed.), ‘Environmental Health in International and EU Law: Current Challenges and Legal Responses, ‘Giappichelli-Routledge, 2019 
• ‘The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’s  Advisory Opinion on the Environment and Human Rights’ American Journal of International Law, September 2018
• Co-Editor of Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, Volume of International / Multilateral Environmental Treaties (above), September 2017, Edward Elgar Publishing
• ‘The Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context’, in Fitzmaurice, Tanzi and Papantoniou (eds), Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, Volume of International / Multilateral Environmental Treaties ,2017, Edward Elgar Publishing

Public Engagement

Recent:

• UNEP Summer/Winter School 2022
• Collaboration with One Ocean Hub since 2020
• External Expert on Children’s Rights and the Environment , Collaboration with Head of Environmental Division of Scottish Human Rights Task Force 2020-2021