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Lavanya Rajamani (India), B.C.L & D.Phil. (Oxon, Rhodes Scholar), LL.M (Yale), is a Legal Research Fellow with the CISDL, and Lecturer in Environmental Law, and Fellow & Director of Studies in Law at Queens' College, Cambridge. She teaches International and European Environmental Law, and conducts research in international environmental law, in particular in the areas of international climate change law and policy, trade and environment, non-state actors in international environmental governance, and the industrial-developing country dynamic in the creation and implementation of international environmental law. She has worked as a consultant to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, the Alliance of Small Island States, the UNDP, the World Bank, and the International Institute of Sustainable Development. She is also a free-lance Project Director at the Global Environment & Trade Study, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. Her publications include Differential Treatment In International Environmental Law, Oxford Monographs in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006); Judicial Activism & Public Interest Environmental Litigation in India: Its Role in Improving Delivery of Public Services, Enhancing Accountability of Public Officials and Triggering Reforms in Governance, World Bank Working Paper 102pp (February 2005); The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat & NGO/Observer Participation: Current Practices & Future Options, UNFCCC Working Paper 75pp (June 2004); “From Stockholm to Johannesburg: The Anatomy of Dissonance in International Environmental Dialogue” 12:1 Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 23 (2003); “Renegotiating Kyoto: A Review of the Sixth Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC” 12 Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 201-238(2001); and “The Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibility & the Balance of Commitments under the Climate Regime” 9:2 Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 120(2000). She has also authored various articles on legal issues relating to the environment, international law, human rights, feminism, and labor, in several academic journals. Publication of Working Papers by the UNDP and Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and features in periodicals such as Down to Earth, TIEMPO, Third World Resurgence and newspapers.