Anna Russell
Louwes Fellow
Anna Russell is the Louwes Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she also teaches an international law course at the Centre for the Environment. She has a DPhil in law from the University of Oxford, a JD from the University of Ottawa, and a BScE(Hons) in environmental engineering from Queen’s University, Canada. She is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada (Barrister and Solicitor). Over the last decade and a half, Anna has worked on environmental and development projects in Bolivia, Peru, South Africa, Germany, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. She has undertaken legal consultancy work for various international organizations, government departments and NGOs. With a particular focus on development issues, her main areas of interest are international environmental law and international human rights law. Current research projects include an empirical investigation into the integration of human rights into development cooperation, as well as an edited book on the human right to water. At present, Anna is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law Faculty (Human Rights Programme).
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A Russell and M Langford, 'Global Precedent' or 'Reasonable No More'?: The Mazibuko Case' (2008) 19 Journal of Water Law 73
A Russell, 'Incorporating Social Rights in Development: Transnational Corporations and the Right to Water' (2011) 7 International Journal of Law in Context 1
A Russell, 'International Organizations and Human Rights: Resisting, Realizing or Repackaging the Right to Water?' (2010) 9 Journal of Human Rights 1
A Russell and S McCaffrey, 'Tapping Transboundary Waters: Implications of the Right to Water for States Sharing International Watercourses' in A Russell & M Langford (eds), The Right to Water: Theory, Practice and Prospects (CUP 2011)
A Russell, 'The Emergence of the Human Right to Water: Interdisciplinary Intersections' in The Right to Water: Theory, Practice and Prospects (CUP 2011)
A Russell and A Khalfan, 'The Recognition of the Right to Water in South Africa's Legal Order' in H Smets (ed), The Right to Water in Africa and Europe (Académie de l'eau Paris 2005)
A Russell and A Russell (eds), The Right to Water: Theory, Practice and Prospects (CUP 2011)
A Russell, 'Towards an International Right to Water' (2005) 14 Human Rights Defender 10
A Russell, 'Why Canada Should be Hesitant to Follow the United States and European Approach to Implementing the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty' (2002) 20 CPR 315
Interests
Research: Public International Law
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Correspondence address:
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY
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other affiliation(s):
Public International Law @ Oxford
