Claudia Tam

DPhil Law

Other affiliations

Faculty of Law

Biography

Claudia Tam is a DPhil candidate under the supervision of Professor Lavanya Rajamani and Professor Catherine Redgwell. Her research applies a Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) perspective to loss and damage in international climate change law. She has published articles on human rights law and animal law.

Claudia obtained an LLB from the University of Hong Kong and an LLM in Human Rights Law (Distinction) from the LSE, where she was awarded the Blackstone Chambers Prize in Public International Law. Prior to joining Oxford, she was an Access to Justice Fellow at Equal Justice, a Hong Kong-based community legal information center.

Research Interests

International climate change law; loss and damage; decolonial theory; Third World Approaches to International Law; climate justice