Jessica is a Centre Researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), a doctoral candidate and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Land Economy. Her research is on climate litigation, with a focus on the operation of the duty of care as a litigation device in cases seeking redress from corporates and governments.  She is supervised by Professor Jorge E. Viñuales and Professor Harro van Asselt.

Jessica holds the Hoffmann Fellowship in Global Climate Governance from the World Economic Forum in partnership with the Centre for Climate Engagement, Hughes Hall.  She regularly advises corporates, investors, and States in relation to international and domestic climate policy, ESG and climate litigation risk.  She writes and speaks extensively on these topics. 

Jessica is a qualified lawyer with broad experience in practice as both arbitrator and counsel in international commercial and investment arbitration matters. She also has experience as in-house counsel to a global Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) company in the energy sector and in the public sector as the Special Legislative Assistant to the Government House Leader in the Parliament of Ontario, Canada.  She has been recognised as a leading practitioner by Lexology Index: Arbitration, 2024 and 2025.

She holds a B.A. Hons. (McGill University), an LLB. Hons., (University College London) and an LLM Energy & Climate Change Institute (Queen Mary University of London). She has also completed executive training on the impact of the climate emergency on global business at the University of Oxford.  She is admitted to practice in New York and as a Solicitor in England and Wales.

Co-coordinator and Lecturer EP07 National, Comparative and European Environmental Law and Policy (23/24)

Supervisions: 

Paper 15 / EP01 International Law, Climate Change and the Environment 

Paper 5 Environmental Economics and Law