Gaia Lisi

Gaia Lisi is a DPhil candidate in Law at the University of Oxford and a Legal Associate at the Climate Litigation Network. In her professional role, she supports organisations bringing strategic legal cases against governments for insufficient climate action. Her DPhil research, supervised by Professor Sanja Bogojević, evaluates how the Court of Justice of the European Union engages with issues of scientific and technical complexity in environmental and climate litigation.

Prior to her current role, Gaia worked as a Law and Policy Advisor at environmental NGOs including ClientEarth and Pesticide Action Network Europe, and trained as a Legal Officer at the Directorate-General for the Environment at the European Commission. 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, and conducted research for the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme and the Centre for Climate Engagement at the University of Cambridge. Her work has been published in leading journals including Nature Climate Change and the British Medical Journal, and her report on EU–UK trade cooperation on environmental and climate change matters has been cited by the UK House of Lords.

Gaia holds an MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge, a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford, and an LLB in European Law with Summa Cum Laude from Maastricht University.