Elisa Fiorini Beckhauser holds a Doctor Europaeus PhD in Law and Sustainability from the University of Salento in Italy, with a thesis entitled ‘The Ecocentric Latin American climate litigation: rethinking the legal avenues to address climate change’. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting researcher at the Center for Environmental Law Studies of Tarragona (Spain), the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Germany), and the University of Medellín (Colombia). She also has a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil, and her research focuses on human rights, climate litigation and the intersection between climate science and legal evidence standards.

She is involved in various initiatives on climate change and environmental law. She is a member of the Latin American Climate Lawyers Initiative for Mobilising Action (LACLIMA) and the Global Network of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE). She is also an expert in the Young-Professional category of the Harmony with Nature Network (HwN) of the United Nations, specialising in Earth-Centred Law, and co-lead of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) Early Career Specialists Group on the project ‘Next-Generation Environmental Law Research’.

At the CMCC Foundation, she is affiliated with the Advanced Training and Education Center and conducts research on climate law & litigation. She co-leads the ‘Sea Legal Rise’ project at the Sciences Po Paris Law Clinic for Environmental Justice and Ecological Transition, and has worked on the 1st Assessment Report of the Knowledge Hub on Sea Level Rise (MAGICA Project) and the European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA Project).