Academic profile
Dr Lovleen Bhullar is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Law in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. She is also a Fellow of Queens’ College. Previously, Dr Bhullar was an Assistant Professor in Birmingham Law School (2020-2024) and a Research Fellow in Regulation and Antimicrobial Resistance at Edinburgh Law School (2018-2020).
Dr Bhullar is interested in the role of law and policy in addressing antimicrobial resistance, climate change, environmental degradation and water pollution, with a focus on the global majority regions. Her most recent publication is a co-edited volume titled Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India (OUP 2024). Over the past couple of years, she has contributed to the development of a framework climate law for a state in India, and she was a member of the community of practice of the Environment and Human Rights workstream of the Prevention Project hosted by NYU. Dr Bhullar is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Environmental Law, the Law, Environment and Development (LEAD) Journal, and Environmental Policy and Law.
Dr Bhullar holds an LLB degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, an LLM in Environmental Law (with Distinction) and a PhD from SOAS – University of London, and an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation (with Distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. |
Teaching
Paper 3: Quantitative and Legal Methods for Land Economists Paper 5: Environmental Economics and Law Paper 9: Private Law EP01: International Environmental Law EP07: National, Comparative and European Environmental Law and Policy |
Research interests
Dr Bhullar is currently pursuing three strands of research: (i) multi-level and multi-actor regulation of antimicrobial resistance in the environment, (ii) environmental duties of natural and legal persons inhabiting the global majority regions (with her research in Africa funded by a British Academy-Leverhulme Small Research Grant), and (iii) water security and climate change in South Asia (from 2025, as a senior researcher on an ERC Advanced Grant project). In addition, she has extensive research experience in law and policy relating to the environment, climate change, sanitation and water as well as related rights-based litigation in India. She has also worked on climate change and water governance issues in Southeast Asia. |
Publications
Journal articles
Edited books
Book chapters
Others
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Category/Classification
environment, water, climate change, antimicrobial resistance, law |