Melanie Jean Murcott

Melanie Jean Murcott is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. Her research recognises that a functioning and flourishing environment creates the conditions in which social justice can occur. It focuses on environmental law, including how the law can be more responsive to the socio-ecological reality that climate crisis is causing social, environmental, and climate injustice. Much of her research is about how the causes and impacts of climate change violate and undermine the fulfilment of human rights, particularly in the Global South.