Judicial Responses to Climate Change in the Global South

Shuma Talukdar is a lawyer equipped with experience in various sectors, including aviation, FMCG, information technology, media and entertainment, NGO, oil and gas, real estate, and shipping, and is a certified Corporate Governance Professional. She earned the degree of BA Honours (Political Science) from Gauhati University, LL.B. from Pune University, LL.M. (Business Law) from Amity University, Master's in Public Administration from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, Diploma in International Environmental Law and Governance from UNITAR, and certificate in the management of Intellectual Property at universities from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. Shuma is also a Fellow of Women Entrepreneurship Program 2018, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore. She has served Bodhi Global Services Pvt Ltd, Pune and India Law Offices (now known as Law Offices of India), New Delhi as an Associate. She holds professional membership of theSupreme Court of India, the Bar Council of India, and the Department of Justice, Ministry of Law, Government of India. She co-founded a law firm, Droit India Legal Services in Noida, and ran it as a Managing Partner from 2013 to 2015. Shuma is a social entrepreneur and established an NGO, Society for Social Regeneration & Equity (SSRE) in 2013. She served it from 2013 to 2020 as President. Under her leadership, SSRE worked in the fields of skill development, micro finance, livelihood, tobacco control, health and hygiene, women empowerment, gender equality, environment, and legal rights.

Valéria Emília de Aquino is a Brazilian Human Rights Lawyer and a Human Rights Ph.D. candidate at the Federal University of Goiás. She is also a member of the study group "Law, Globalization, and Citizenship". She is a member of the Editorial Board and Research Collaborator of International Law without Borders (Brazil) and a Research Associate member of the Institute of International Studies (Bolívia). She was Visiting fellow at the Mercosur Institute of Public Policies on Human Rights (Argentina), and a former Professor in Law at Presidente Antônio Carlos University (UNIPAC) in Uberlândia where she taught Environmental Law, Civil Practice, and Civil Procedure.