Civic Monitoring for Environmental Law Enforcement

Abstract

She founded and developed the 'Sensing for Justice' project aimed at exploring the potential of civic monitoring as a source of evidence for environmental litigation and as a tool to foster environmental mediation. Currently, Anna is research fellow at Luiss -Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Law School, Rome, in collaboration with LabGov -the Laboratory for the Governance of the City as a Commons, with the research mission to explore the law as an enabling tool for accelerating responses to climate change, biodiversity loss and water scarcity. She is also Qualified Barrister, admitted to the Bar of Rome, and she collaborates on climate and environmental law matters with Systasis -Centre for the Prevention and Management of Environmental Conflicts, Milan. Earlier, she worked on the project 'EFFIGIES -Efficiency in Justice and Sustainability' aimed at developing solutions to improve judicial rights protection at the University of Florence, Law School. Between 2016 and 2020, Anna led the 'Sensing the Risk' research project at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, The Netherlands. The project aimed at investigating how civic monitoring influences the governance of environmental health risk and how the practice can be integrated within institutional models of risk governance. Anna has a background in Law from the University of Bologna and Transnational Law from the University of Geneva. She has work and research experience in health law and technology (UK), environmental litigation (Italy, The Netherlands, Ecuador) and water law (Chile, Switzerland).