Danielle Hanna Rached is a professor at the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo (IRI-USP). She holds a Master's degree (2007) and a PhD (2013) in international law from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a Master's degree (2004) in administrative law from the Faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo. She is a researcher at the Centre for Law and Social Transformation (CMI/University of Bergen), Norway. She was a visiting researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Germany, in the Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions department. She completed a postdoctoral internship, funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), at the IRI-USP (2014-2018). Her research focuses on processes of autocratisation and the climate agenda, global environmental governance and democratic possibilities, Brazilian foreign policy in environmental matters, and the role of social movements in demanding climate justice. (Text provided by the author)

Research line:

• Governance and History of International Relations

Research areas:

• Autocratization processes and the climate agenda
• Brazilian foreign policy in the environmental arena
• The role of social movements in the environmental field
• Dimensions of climate justice
• Global governance and democratic possibilities

Courses taught in the Bachelor's Degree in International Relations:

• BRI0025 - Theory of State II: Comparative Constitutionalism
• BRI0116 - Climate Justice
• DES0114 - Theory of State I

Courses taught in the Graduate Programme in International Relations:

• PRI5080 - Climate Justice