Jérémie Gilbert

I am a legal scholar working at the intersection of human rights, ecological justice, and the rights of nature, with a longstanding focus on the rights of Indigenous peoples to land and natural resources. 

My work explores how human rights law can support social and ecological justice by recognising nature as a rights-bearing subject and strengthening communities’ collective rights to territory, culture, and a healthy environment.​

I regularly serve as an expert for the United Nations, and also work in close collaboration with several non-governmental organisations. I am a strategic international legal advisor with Lawyers for Nature, a board member of the Peoples Planet Project ; a trustee of the International Lawyers project; and a strategic advisor for the Clean Trade, an organisation working to support peoples’ rights over their natural resources against blood oil and conflict minerals. 

I have recently led the establishment of the Interdisciplinary Network on the Rights of Nature

I am currently Professor of Social and Ecological Justice at the University of Southampton, having joined Southampton Law School in 2025 as part of the university’s wider sustainability agenda. Previously, I served as Professor of Human Rights Law at several universities (University of Ulster, University of East London, Middlesex University, University of Roehampton, and the Global Campus for Human Rights).