Bridget Lewis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, where she is a member of the Ecological Justice Research Program. Bridget’s research explores various issues at the intersection of the environment and human rights, including climate change, environmental and intergenerational justice, and displacement. Her doctoral research presented a multidimensional analysis of the concept of a human right to a healthy environment and what it can contribute to a human rights-based approach to climate change. Bridget’s book Environmental Human Rights and Climate Change: Current Status and Future Prospects was published in 2018 and her work has appeared in journals including Transnational Environmental Law, the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, the Asia-Pacific Journal of Environmental Law and the Australian Yearbook of International Law.

Bridget’s current research explores potential legal protections for the environmental rights of future generations, particularly in the context of climate change, including an examination of climate litigation by children and young people.