Danielle Denny

Danielle has carried out research on sustainability assessment since her masters when she analyzed possibilities of green washing in an empirical study case. Her PhD was also on social and environmental sustainability assessment, and the focal point was a private voluntary sustainability standard regarding renewable energy. She published many chapters and papers about her findings. Danielle started her teaching career in 2011, and assumed a full position in 2018. She lectures Latin America Social Environmental Sustainability, Media Entertainment and Tech Law, Environmental Law, International Law and Global Governance. In one of the universities she worked she used to be the leader of International Environmental Law on the e-learning platform, having to develop the teaching material, film classes and interact with the students online on a mass scale. She is part of the peer-review board of three academic journals and part of the editor council of one legal publication. She is member of the Brazilian Bar (OAB) and of the Media Entertainment expert’s commission of the lawyer’s institute of the state of São Paulo (IASP).  Previously to her academic career she was a corporate lawyer at big companies and important legal firms in Brazil. Her academic background was first in Law (Bachelor 2001), then Politics (postgraduate study 2002), Taxation (LLM 2004), Economic Diplomacy (Diploma 2005), International Relations (postgraduate study 2009), Communication in the contemporaneity (MPhil 2012) and International Environmental Law (PhD 2018). All these experiences were in top ten best Brazilian universities with excellent results in grades and academic production. Apart from that, she is a CopyrightX alumnae. CopyrightX is a Harvard Law networked course offered annually since 2013 under the auspices of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society’s distance-learning initiative at Harvard University, USA. And most recently she attended the Brazil Faap Business Confucius Institute Chinese Cultural Summer Camp organized by the Institute of International Business Chinese Education and Resources Development at the University of International Business and Economics at Beijing, China. During her PhD she received a fellowship funded by the Brazilian government (Capes/CNPQ) which criteria was merit. In that selection she took the first place, being considered the best student of the 2015 post graduation program of Universidade Católica de Santos. She also received a grant to go from Brazil, to the University of Oslo, take part on the Colloquium on Frontiers in International Environmental Law. And at the end of her PhD program, she was accepted as a visiting scholar at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, at Yale University, USA and once more received a grant from the Brazilian government (Capes/CNPQ) to cover her expenses.
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Address: London