(MENAFN- The Conversation) PhD candidate in international climate law and litigation and Sessional Lecturer- University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand Profile Articles Activity

Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala
PhD Candidate (Wits), LLM (Wits), CISA (Jami'ah SA), CML (UNISA & Pret), LLB & BLC (Pret).

Attorney, Conveyancer and Notary of the High Court of South Africa. With an extensive legal background, she previously practiced as a property lawyer and is currently pursuing research in international climate law, litigation and governance.

She is also an examiner for the Legal Practice Council (Law Society of South Africa) for attorney, conveyancer and notary admission examinations. Zunaida contributes to global legal and sustainability efforts as a rapporteur for the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, covering South Africa, and as Regional Leader for Africa.

Zunaida is a sessional lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, an associate fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), a course leader at the University of Cambridge's Democratising Education for Global Sustainable Justice programme, and a member of the editorial team for the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE). She is also the editor for the UNESCO Voices of Future Generations Children's Initiative.

Please listen to Zunaida on Radio 702 here:

Her latest publications are:

Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala – The Conversation

Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance: Courage, Contribution
Climate Litigation Brief #5/2024: The High Court of South Africa, African Climate Alliance and Others v The Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy and Others - Judgment of 4 December 2024 - Lexxion

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CCLR - Carbon & Climate Law Review: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Rights and the Legal Obligations of States to Protect Them – A Comparative Jurisdictional Analysis

"ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: Summary of Briefs and Statem"

Rights-Based Climate Litigation in South Africa and the Netherlands in: Chinese Journal of Environmental Law Volume 7 Issue 2 (2023)

Experience

• –present Lecturer in Climate Change Law, University of the Witwatersrand

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