March 2026 Fellows' update: Jemima Lovatt
Jemima Lovatt (CF 2025) spoke at Public Law Project’s conference Public Law and the Planet, sharing insights from her Churchill Fellowship to India.
By Jemima Lovatt, 4 March 2026
Fellow's Profile
Jemima Lovatt
Fellow's Profile
Jemima Lovatt
Protecting people and our natural environment from climate change through law
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Researching climate change litigation strategies
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2025
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Biography
I am a barrister specialising in environmental, regulatory and public law. I have been granted a Fellowship to travel to Switzerland and India to research climate change litigation. I will learn from international environmental law experts at the many NGOs pursuing environmental litigation who are based in Geneva. I want to build novel cases and change legal precedents so the UK courts better protect people and our natural environment from climate change.
Vulnerable communities face harsher climate risks and greater barriers in bringing a case to court. I will use my legal skills to improve the representation of UK communities who are affected by climate change and those who would otherwise struggle to bring their case to court. Their representation will improve the social inequalities in how climate change affects different people.
My experience ranges from prosecuting and defending jury trials to running a global legal reform campaign and sitting on the board of a national charity. I am delighted at this opportunity to travel to Geneva, an essential locus for advancing environmental law, where I can learn from environmental lawyers and bring strategies home.
Activity
February 2026 Fellows' update: Jemima Lovatt
Jemima Lovatt (CF 2025) recently responded to UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCRH) Call for Input addressing the challenges and barriers to the full realisation of the human rights of the people of the Marshall Islands stemming from the State’s nuclear legacy.
By Jemima Lovatt, 13 February 2026
August 2025 Fellows' update: Jemima Lovatt
Jemima Lovatt (CF 2025) has contributed analysis of the Independent Water Commission’s Final Report on Regulator Reform.
By Jemima Lovatt, 25 August 2025
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
Activity
March 2026 Fellows' update: Jemima Lovatt
Jemima Lovatt (CF 2025) spoke at Public Law Project’s conference Public Law and the Planet, sharing insights from her Churchill Fellowship to India.
By Jemima Lovatt, 4 March 2026
February 2026 Fellows' update: Jemima Lovatt
Jemima Lovatt (CF 2025) recently responded to UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCRH) Call for Input addressing the challenges and barriers to the full realisation of the human rights of the people of the Marshall Islands stemming from the State’s nuclear legacy.
By Jemima Lovatt, 13 February 2026
August 2025 Fellows' update: Jemima Lovatt
Jemima Lovatt (CF 2025) has contributed analysis of the Independent Water Commission’s Final Report on Regulator Reform.
By Jemima Lovatt, 25 August 2025
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
