Ole W. Pedersen is Reader in Environmental Law and joint Director of Research at Newcastle University Law School. Dr Pedersen actively researches the areas of environmental law, enforcement, justice and rights, and hydraulic fracturing and his scholarship engages with conceptual and foundational issues of environmental law and legal scholarship as well as the role of the courts in shaping modern environmental law. He is joint author of an established textbook on environmental law and Deputy Director of the Global Network of Human Rights and the Environment.