Jolene 

LIN

Jolene Lin is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law. She received her PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam, LLM from New York University and LLB from the London School of Economics. Jolene is also an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Jolene is a world-leading expert on climate change law. Her research has been published in leading international journals such as the Journal of Environmental Law, the American Journal of International Law and the European Journal of International Law. Jolene’s edited collection on climate litigation in the Asia Pacific (with Douglas A. Kysar) is the first comprehensive scholarly examination of the emergence of climate litigation in the Asia Pacific. Her book, Governing Climate Change: Global Cities and Transnational Lawmaking (Cambridge University Press, 2018) reimagined the role of cities in the making and implementation of climate change laws and regulations. Jolene’s latest book, written with Jacqueline Peel, Litigating Climate Change in the Global South (Oxford University Press, 2024) is the first systematic study of the “who, what, where and how” of the growing phenomenon of climate litigation across the regions of Latin America, Africa and Asia. The book offers new and exciting insights into the unique approaches and characteristics of Global South climate litigation.

Jolene is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Environmental Law, Transnational Law, the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law and Climate Law. Given her interest in the role of law in advancing climate action, Jolene serves on the global advisory board of Climate Change Legal Initiative (C2LI). Jolene is also a member of the Academic Circle supporting the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to development (2024-2026) and Vice-Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce Global Environment and Energy Commission. She has delivered public lectures at the University of Amsterdam, University College London and Kings College London.

At NUS, Jolene teaches tort law and climate change law. She received the NUS Faculty of Law’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2020 and 2023. The award is given by NUS Law to recognise faculty members who have demonstrated a high level of commitment to teaching.

• Climate Change Law
• Climate Change Litigation
• Transnational Environmental Law