Sumudu Atapattu
Expert on link between environmental issues and human rights, climate change, international environmental law, sustainable development, environmental justice
Director, Research Centers, UW Law School Law School Work: 608-890-1395 — Home and cell phones available upon request sumudu.atapattu@wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- I study how environmental issues implicate human rights, and the emerging right to a healthy environment under international law and in South Asia
- I study the impact of climate change on a range of human rights, climate "refugees," and climate change and small island states
- I study environmental justice, social pillar of sustainable development, sustainable development goals, and international environmental law from the North-South perspective
Achievements
- Lead counsel for human rights at the Center for International Sustainable Development Law, Montreal, Canada
- Consultant to the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Sweden, teaching courses on environmental rights
- Published book titled "Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities (Routledge, 2016)