Staff Profile

Sakshi joined Newcastle Law School as a lecturer in September 2022. Before joining Newcastle, she completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her thesis examined comparative Indigenous environmental litigation in Australia, Brazil, and Canada. She also obtained an MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge and read for the BCL at the University of Oxford (2014-15).

My research areas include comparative environmental law, plural sovereignties, legal geography, Marxist legal theory and political economy, nonhuman legal personhood, and jurisprudence. My work and several of my collaborations are interdisciplinary. I am currently working on:

• Plural sovereignties and rethinking property law
• Valuing Biodiversity in Courts
• Legalisation of Climate Change Science and Evidence in Courts

My new research project is titled Plural Sovereignties and Climate Justice in the Anthropocene.

I teach on the following modules: environmental law, global legal studies, constitutional law and law and ethics.

• Articles

  • Jackson G, Sakshi. Political and legal implications of defining 'particularly vulnerable' for the loss and damage fund. Climate and Development 2024, ePub ahead of Print.
  • Sakshi S. Book Review: Just Transformations Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures (eds: Iokiñe Rodríguez, Mariana Walter and Leah Temper). Sociological Forum 2024, epub ahead of print.

• Book Chapters

  • Sakshi S. Rethinking property law through plural sovereignties. In: Akkermans B, ed. A Research Agenda for Property Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, pp.245-262.
  • Sakshi S. Land in Courts: Registers of Memory, Sovereignty, and Justice. In: Felix Anderl, ed. Epistemologies of Land. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. In Press.
  • Sakshi S. “The Shape of Environmental Law in a Settler State”. In: Paul O’Connell and Umut Özsu, ed. Research Handbook on Law and Marxism. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. In Preparation.
  • Sakshi S, McCauley Darren. “Interrogating Resilience: A Critical Analysis of its Use and Impact on Indigenous Discourses in Australia and Sápmi”. In: Tracey Skillington, ed. Climate Change Resilience Across Social Contexts. Springer, 2024. In Preparation.