Human Rights Aligned Responsible Business Conduct

Professor Sara L. Seck is a full professor at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. She held the Yogis & Keddy Chair in Human Rights Law (2021-2025) and since July 2023 has served as the Director of the Marine and Environmental Law Institute. Her work is informed and inspired by feminist, relational and intersectional approaches to legal analysis, including TWAIL.

Co-edited books include the 2021 Cambridge Handbook on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development and the 2021 Research Handbook on Climate Change Law and Loss and Damage, as well as volumes 36-40 of the Ocean Yearbook. She has led research for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on topics relating to business, human rights, and the environment including a project designed to clarify human rights-informed responsible business climate action, and a project to develop training materials on a human rights-based approach to the plastics value chain. Among other associations, she is a long time member of the Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), a current member of the International Law Association (ILA)’s Committee on the Protection of People at Sea and a Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow with Macquarie University’s Environmental Law Research Centre.