Ms. Anna Russell, Oxford University Faculty of Law

Anna F.S. Russell, B.Sc.(Hons)(Queen’s), LL.B.(Ottawa), is an associate fellow of CISDL and a doctoral candidate in law at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. With a degree in geological (environmental) engineering, she has worked on environmental and water projects in Bolivia, Peru, Germany, the United States and Canada. While studying law in Ottawa, she undertook research for the Canadian International Development Agency on international approaches to water and development. After obtaining her law degree, she clerked at the Federal Court of Canada, and was called the Bar of Ontario in 2003. With the Canadian Bar Association’s International Development Program, she then worked with the Legal Resources Centre in Durban, South Africa on environmental justice and water law projects. A member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, her current research interests include international human rights and environmental (water) law and policy. Using the right to water as a case study, her doctoral research project is a socio-legal investigation of human rights standard setting at the international level. She is fluent in English, and speaks some French and Spanish.