Carla Sbert

Carla Sbert is a doctoral candidate at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Graduate Studies in Law. She studied law at ITAM in Mexico (her native country) and holds a Masters in Law degree from Harvard Law School. After twenty years working on environmental law and policy in different contexts, she is now carrying out doctoral research on a new legal paradigm: ecological law. Carla is interested in the role law can play in the transition from the current economic-growth-based society to one based on ecological justice and ecological integrity.