Dr Tiago de Melo Cartaxo (he/him)

Tiago de Melo Cartaxo is currently an Associate Professor in Environmental Law & Adaptive Regulation (E&R) at the University of Exeter Law School, where he is Deputy Director for Business Engagement and Innovation (BEI). Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS), Cornwall, in the same University, where he founded the Exeter Centre for Environmental Law (ExCEL) and was part of Law and Business Cornwall (LAB/C), teaching and researching in the areas of national, EU and international environmental law and regulation, environmental rights, climate and resilience justice, circular economy and the energy transition. He has been Co-Director for BEI for HaSS Cornwall and Associate Director for External Engagement in the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI), where he has coordinated an ESI-funded pilot project on regulatory frameworks for nature markets, and he has also been Director of Postgraduate Research for HaSS Cornwall. Previously, he was an invited professor in Environmental Law and Administrative Law at NOVA School of Law Lisbon, where he was awarded a PhD in Law (European PhD/Doctor Europaeus Title - the first at that Institution), with two national FCT fellowships and a Fulbright Scholarship for research in the University of Louisville. He has received a Higher Education Teaching Certificate from Harvard University and is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AdvanceHE).

Holding a degree in Law from the University of Lisbon and a Masters in Environmental Law from the University of Coimbra, Tiago has founded and coordinated NOVA Law Green Lab and was a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Surrey School of Law, working in transcontinental projects on governance and regulation of single-use plastics. He worked as a practitioner in law firms in Lisbon, Portugal, where he is a qualified lawyer, and advised local and national governments in the field of Environmental Law and Planning. In the Portuguese National Government, he accompanied the implementation of the Economic and Financial Assistance Programme (2011-2014) in the areas of the Environment and Economy. Under the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Tiago chaired the WPIEI (Basel) and coordinated an academic partnership with the Portuguese Environment Agency to monitor and implement international Conventions in the areas of waste and environmental assessment. He has been a member of the Society of Legal Scholars, Biodiversity and People Network, ILA Committee on Sustainable Development and the Green Economy in International Trade Law, ILA Committee on International Law for the SDGs, the ICC Commission on Environment and Energy, the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment, and the Centre for European Legal Studies at Exeter. 

Research supervision:

Tiago welcomes research supervision requests in the areas of International, European, and National Environmental & Climate Law.

Office: Amory Building, A019 (ground floor), Streatham Campus