Mary Sabina Peters

Mary Sabina Peters is an Associate Professor at Jindal Law School; before joining OP Jindal Global University, she was a faculty at XIM University, Odisha, India. she completed her BA.LLB from the University of Kerala earned her LLM in Oil and Gas law from the University of Aberdeen. She is one of the university’s first female Indians to be awarded a commendation in oil and gas law. Presently she is pursuing her Doctoral Studies on ‘International law and its efficacy to govern competing claims in the ‘changing geosphere ‘of the Arctic region.’ She has been awarded fellowships such as CB Davidson fellow and Global Policy Fellow (UNOSSC-UN South-South Cooperation)., WILING (American Society International Law-Mentor), UNEP-ISNAD (Africa-Mentor) Fellow, Mentor working group African Network of Young Leaders for Peace and Sustainable Development (ANYL4PSD) Leading the Climate Justice and New Deal for Nature and People Coalitions and Lead Like A Girl Fellowship, Shenomics. In the past, she has worked as a Research fellow on the Scottish marine bill for the Scottish parliament, effectively promoting the need for Environmental Impact Assessment in decision-making processes. Her research work has been acknowledged globally in energy laws and environmental laws. In the 2020 UN Law of the Sea Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea Office of Legal Affairs, the United Nations acknowledged her work as global reference material. Further, the United Nations Economic Commission of Europe has also considered her work on the water convention. Her work has been published in the Encyclopaedia of Public International Law in Asia (EPILA) and by the Encyclopaedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Springer. In the past, she has also worked/interned with Law secretaries of state, leading Judges and lawyers of the Supreme Court of India.