Kate Miles, B.A., LL.B., LL.M. (Hons I) (Auckland), LL.M. (NYU), is a Legal Research Fellow with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law. She is also a Lecturer in International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, specialising in international investment law and international environmental law. She has published work on international investment law, sustainable finance, and the regulation of corporate conduct under international law. She teaches courses in International Trade and the Environment, International Investment Law, and Public International Law. She is a member of the Society of International Economic Law, the International Law Association-Australian Branch, the Australia and New Zealand Society for International Law, the Sydney Centre for International Law, and the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law. She is also the Assistant Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law.

Professor Miles has an LL.M. in Environmental Law (Hons I) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from NYU School of Law. She was the recipient of the Geoffrey Powell Prize and the Gary Davies Medal as an undergraduate at the University of Auckland. She has taught at King’s College, University of London, and studied at UCL, University of London. She was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award to pursue her doctorate at the University of Sydney on the interrelationship between international investment law and principles of environmental protection. She has also practiced in leading commercial law firms in Auckland and Sydney, including at Allens Arthur Robinson in Sydney.