Vidya Ann Jacob

Ms. Vidya Ann Jacob is an Assistant Professor at School of Law, CHRIST and has been associated with the law school for the past seven years. She has completed her B.A.LL.B. from Bangalore University and LL.M from the Christ University. Her Research interests include Human Rights, Urban Development Law and Environmental Law. She has been a part of research projects funded by the Karnataka Government and National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

She was a Fulbright Doctoral Fellow in 2019-20 at Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland. During her fellowship she worked on the area of climate resilient mechanisms adopted by the States of Oregon and California and the role of courts in adjudicating climate change

Peer-Reviewed Publications

International (Peer Reviewed Journal)

1. What is the way forward for the Global South in the era of Climate Change? (sole author, Wisconsin International Law Journal) (May, 2020)
   https://wilj.law.wisc.edu/jus-gentium/what-is-the-way-forward-for-the-global-south-in-the-era-of-climate-change/
    
2. Climate Change Litigation and Human Rights, (co-authored with Bhavna Mishra and Rishav Ambastha, Fourth Year Students, National Law School of India University , Bengaluru) (March, 2018) http://www.lawasia.asn.au/home.html

National (Peer Reviewed Journal)

1. Is Renewable Energy a Viable Alternative? An Examination of the Draft National Energy Policy, 2017 against the background of the German Energy Policy (Energiewende), 5 Journal of Law and Public Policy Sustainable Energy: Law and Policy in India, NLSIU (2018) (co-authored with Bharath G, Kiran S, Aman Khetwal, Third Year Students, School of Law, Christ, Bengaluru)
   http://nlspub.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JLPP-2018-Vol-5.pdf