Damien Short
Damien Short is a professor of human rights and environmental justice at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London.
Focuses of his research include indigenous rights, genocide studies, and environmental human rights. Short is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Human Rights and a member of the International Network of Genocide Scholars. He is co-director of the Human Rights Consortium and the Environmental Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study.
Life and career
Short received an MA and a PhD from the University of Essex, along with an LLB from the University of Wales.He is a judge on the International Rights of Nature Tribunal, a project of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.
Books published by Short include Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia and Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide.