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- Anna Maria Grear (born 4 September 1959) is Professor of Law and Theory at Cardiff University. She is the founder and past-director of the international network of scholars, policy-makers and activists the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), and is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. Grear graduated from the University of Bristol (LLB (Hons)); Oxford Brookes University (DLL) and First Class from St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she has a Bachelor of Civil Law degree (BCL—2 year). From May 2000 to January 2006, she was a senior lecturer in law at Oxford Brookes University; from February 2006 to January 2012, she was a senior lecturer in law at the University of the West of England. From February 2012 to June 2013 she was associate professor of law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. In 2013, she took up a post as reader in Law at Cardiff University, where she holds a Personal Chair as Professor of Law and Theory. She remains an adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. In March 2010, Grear founded a double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal, the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. She has served as editor-in-chief ever since. In January 2010, she founded a "network for the creation of change", the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE). In 2014, Grear co-founded Incredible Edible Bristol (an urban food-growing movement and project) with Sara Venn. Grear was also co-initiator of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Climate Change, Fracking and Human Rights, with Professor Tom Kerns. The online tribunal hearings were streamed globally (May 14-18 2018) in a first for the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal. The Advisory Opinion recommended a world-wide ban on fracking. (en)
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