Dr Azadeh Chalabi LLB, LLM, PhD, FHEA

Azadeh's recent book, National Human Rights Action Planning (OUP, 2018), deals with human rights action planning, as a largely under-researched area, from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, and practical perspectives, and as such, provides the most comprehensive studies of human rights planning to date. At the theoretical level, by advancing a novel general theory of human rights planning, it offers an alternative to the traditional state-centric model of planning. This new theory contains four sub-theories: contextual, substantive, procedural, and analytical ones. At the doctrinal level, by conducting a textual analysis of core human rights conventions, it reveals the scope and nature of the states' obligation to adopt a plan of action for implementing human rights. At the empirical level, a cross-case analysis of national human rights action plans of 53 countries is conducted exploring the major problems of these plans in different phases of planning and uncovering the underlying causes of these problems. At the practical level, this volume sets out how these plans should be developed and implemented, how they can be best monitored by international human rights bodies, and how to maximize their effectiveness.

With discussions bridging human rights theory and practice and development discourse, this book will be a useful resource for a wide range of audiences, from academics of different disciplines (law, human rights, social policy, political science, political philosophy, legal philosophy, development studies, planning studies, socio-legal studies) to governments, human rights practitioners, and the UN human rights bodies.

One of her current research projects is a comprehensive longitudinal study to take stock of three decades of advancing and implementing national human rights action plans with the particular focus on the new wave of human rights action planning.

Azadeh is currently working on a series of article on the right to environment. Her first article was on the scope, nature and content of the human right to environment. It is entitled "A New Theoretical Model of the Right to Environment and its Practical Advantages" published at Oxford Human Rights Law Review in December 2023. A New Theoretical Model of the Right to Environment and its Practical Advantages

Her second article is on the right to environment based approach to climate litigation which is currently under review.