I am a Professor and Director of the MA in International Affairs program in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida, Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project, Expert with the Global AI Ethics Institute, and former Fulbright Scholar to Sri Lanka. At UNF, I received the Top Book Award, Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Outstanding International Leadership Award, and Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award. Locally, I have been named Green Teacher of the Year by the U.S. Green Building Council Florida (Northeast Florida Region) and received the Environmental Achievement Award from the Jacksonville Environmental Protection Board. My research, which focuses on environmental governance, rights, and technology, has been published in many peer-reviewed journals and cited in high-level reports:
UNDP (2014), UNDP (2015), UNEP (2017), UNGA (2018), UNEP (2019), UNESCAP (2019), UN (2019), European Union (2021), UNESCAP (2022), UNU/UNEP (2022), European Union (2023), and UNEP (2023). I am the author of The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights (Routledge 2017) and Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law (Routledge 2020). I run Enviro Rights Map, a Google Maps-based catalogue of environmental rights around the world.
UNDP (2014), UNDP (2015), UNEP (2017), UNGA (2018), UNEP (2019), UNESCAP (2019), UN (2019), European Union (2021), UNESCAP (2022), UNU/UNEP (2022), European Union (2023), and UNEP (2023). I am the author of The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights (Routledge 2017) and Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law (Routledge 2020). I run Enviro Rights Map, a Google Maps-based catalogue of environmental rights around the world.