About
Dr Azadeh Chalabi is a senior lecturer in law at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. Azadeh has written two books and several articles. Her research focuses on the gap between human rights theory and human rights practice. Azadeh, who is the founder and current coordinator of the first Global Network on National Human Rights Action Planning, has been working on these plans for more than 14 years from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical and practical perspectives and has written extensively in this area. She is a world leading figure in national Human rights action planning and her second book, entitled “National Human Rights Action Planning”, published by Oxford University Press, is the first ever volume dedicated to this area.
Azadeh is also working on the scope, nature and content of the human right to a clean and healthy environment as well as corporate climate change litigation. In her recent work she put forward a new theoretical model of the right to environment. Built upon this theoretical model, she has then suggested the rights to environment-based approach to climate litigation as a new route to climate litigation. Azadeh is a member of the committee on Business and Human Rights, International Law Association.
Azadeh's other research interests include global networked governance for implementing human rights, business and human rights, the social ontological status of human rights from a critical realist perspective, and legal philosophy.
Azadeh’s teaching interests are in the areas of Human Rights Law; Climate Justice, Law and Development; Gender and Human Rights; Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Public International Law; Comparative Law; Sociology of Law; Jurisprudence; and Research Methodology (qualitative and quantitative). Since June 2017, she is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Azadeh created two new (and very popular) LLM modules at SLSJ: Human Rights Action Planning and Climate Justice.