Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala

• Legal Researcher, PhD Candidate and Lead of the African Climate Law Programme, Mandela Institute, University of the Witwatersrand

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

Zunaida leads the African Climate Law Programme at the Mandela Institute, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, where she specialises in international climate law, litigation and governance.
She serves as the Regional Lead Rapporteur for Africa at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia University, contributing to global climate governance research and reporting on climate litigation developments across the continent.

Zunaida is an Attorney, Conveyancer and Notary of the High Court of South Africa, with previous experience as a practicing property lawyer. She is also an examiner for the Legal Practice Council (Law Society of South Africa) for attorney, conveyancer and notary admission examinations.

She is 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). In addition, she serves as an Editor for the UNESCO Voices of Future Generations Children's Initiative.

Zunaida is currently completing her PhD in international climate law at the University of the Witwatersrand.

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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)

• –present Legal Researcher, PhD Candidate and Lead of the African Climate Law Programme, Mandela Institute, University of the Witwatersrand

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