Early Career

Specialist Group Chair :

Nicholas Bryner

Goals of the Specialist Group

• Providing a cross-cutting platform for early career environmental lawyers, policy-makers, and scholars
• Promoting inter-generational partnerships within the WCEL, the wider IUCN Environmental Law Programme, the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, and across IUCN Commissions through the Intergenerational Partnership for Sustainability (IPS).
• Contributing to webinar series that stimulate dialogue on emerging environmental law concerns and innovative solutions by bringing together perspectives from across sectors and generations and providing a set of interdisciplinary methods and tools to affect change
• Publication of "The Future of Environmental Law" consisting of a series of essays from ECG members and articulating an agenda for change in environmental law scholarship, as well as directions for institutional and legislative reform
• Assisting with facilitating online engagement and social media within WCEL and with the wider public
• Contributing to World Environmental Law Congresses and WCEL activities at IUCN World Conservation Congresses
• Providing next generation perspectives on WCEL planning, strategies, and activities
• Managing the “Future of Environmental Law” website

Nicholas Bryner

Professor Nicholas Bryner is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and  the Chair of the WCEL Early Career Group. Professor Bryner is currently an Assistant Professor of law at Louisiana State University School of Law. Professor Bryner has written several articles on environmental, energy, and natural resources law, including: “People of the Sun: Leveraging Electricity Reform to Promote Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation in Mexico,” Natural Resources Journal (forthcoming 2016); “Public Interests and Private Land: The Ecological Function of Property in Brazil,” Virginia Environmental Law Journal (2016); and “Brazil’s Green Court: Environmental Law in the Superior Tribunal de Justiça (High Court of Brazil),” Pace Environmental Law Review(2012). He has also co-edited the volumes on Decision Making in Environmental Law and Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in Edward Elgar’s Encyclopedia of Environmental Law series. Professor Bryner has spoken at major conferences in the United States and Brazil, in Portuguese and English, on topics including Brazilian environmental law, environmental human rights, and international environmental law.

Chair Emerita 

Michelle Lim