Gaia Lisi

Gaia Lisi is a DPhil student in Law at the University of Oxford and a Legal Associate at the Climate Litigation Network.

Her research focuses on the role of scientific evidence in environmental and climate adjudication, examining how the Court of Justice of the European Union engages with issues of scientific and technical complexity. Her doctoral project is supervised by Professor Sanja Bogojević.

Building on the landmark climate case brought by the Urgenda Foundation against the Dutch government, she works with the Climate Litigation Network to support organisations bringing cases targeting governments’ insufficient climate action. Prior to this, Gaia was a Law and Policy Advisor in the Environmental Democracy team at ClientEarth and a Legal and Policy Officer at Pesticide Action Network Europe, where she supported litigation before national and EU courts. She previously trained as a legal officer at the Directorate-General for the Environment at the European Commission. 

Gaia has worked as a researcher at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, the Centre for Climate Engagement at the University of Cambridge, and the Maastricht European Private Law Institute. She has also provided legal advice and research consultancy services on the impacts of strategic climate litigation to the Foundation for International Law for the Environment and the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development.

Gaia’s work has been published in Nature Climate Change, British Medical Journal, and European Papers. She has published a report on EU-UK trade cooperation on environment and climate change matters, which has been cited by the UK House of Lords. She holds an LLB in European Law with Summa Cum Laude from Maastricht University and a Magister Juris degree from the University of Oxford, for which she received the Ely Carter Prize for best performance in the BCL/MJur/MLF from St Anne’s College. Gaia also holds an MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge, where she completed her dissertation on the application of the do no significant harm principle in EU sustainable finance under the supervision of Professor Jorge E. Viñuales.