Leticia Albuquerque
Membership: 2023
Member Bio
Letícia Albuquerque is a professor at the law faculty of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is the cofounder and codirector of the Environmental Justice Observatory, a research and action group in the areas of environment, human rights, and animal rights linked to the graduate program of law at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She is also a coordinator of the Ecological Justice Clinic, which is a project that encourages the practice of ecological law at the law faculty of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. The objective of the Ecological Justice Clinic is to train citizens in the legal and political sphere to handle violations of social and environmental rights, giving legal advice for the filing of lawsuits in the defense of social and environmental rights and training students in legal practice. The clinic has five subareas of action: democratic participation, health and pesticides, biodiversity and specially protected spaces, animal rights, and climate litigation.
