Elisa Morgera specializes in European, international and comparative environmental law. She has researched specifically in the area of environmental integration in European external relations, biodiversity conservation and sustainable use, international environmental governance, and corporate environmental accountability.
As a former legal officer of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, she advised over 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the South Pacific on improving domestic legislation on natural resources. She has also participated in and analyzed various inter-governmental negotiations on environment and sustainable development as a team leader for the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Previously, she also served as environmental management officer for the United Nations Development Programme in the Eastern Caribbean.
Elisa holds law degrees from the University of Trieste (Italian law degree), the University of London (LLM) and the European University Institute (PhD), as well as certificates from the University of Liege and Boston University Law School.
She is a regular contributor to the Yearbook of International Environmental Law, the Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, and the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law.
She has previously lectured on environmental law at the University of Siena, Institut d'études politiques de Paris, the International Development Law Organization, as well as for Washington State University and Temple University.
Elisa Morgera, Soledad Aguilar '“Delivering as One” for the Environment: Reflections on the Report of the UN Panel on System-wide Coherence' (2007) Environmental Policy and Law 37, 271-280
Elisa Morgera 'Significant Trends in Corporate Environmental Accountability: The New Performance Standards of the International Finance Corporation' (2007) Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 18, 147-184
Elisa Morgera 'Competence or Confidence? The Most Appropriate Forum to Address Multi-Purpose High Seas Protected Areas' (2007) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 16, 1-11
Elisa Morgera, Gracia Marin Duran 'Towards Environmental Integration in EC External Relations? A Comparative Analysis of Selected Association Agreements' (2006) Yearbook of European Environmental Law 6, 179-210
Elisa Morgera 'An Environmental Outlook on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Comparative Advantages and Legitimacy in relation to Other International Initiatives' (2006) Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 18, 751-777
Elisa Morgera 'The 2005 UN World Summit and the Environment: The Proverbial Half-Full Glass' (2006) Italian Yearbook of International Law 15, 53-80
Elisa Morgera, Gracia Marin Duran 'The UN 2005 World Summit, the Environment and the EU: Priorities, Promises and Prospects' (2006) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 15, 11-22
Elisa Morgera 'The UN and Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Between International Regulation and Partnerships' (2006) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 15, 93-109
Elisa Morgera 'An Update on the Aarhus Convention and its Continued Global Relevance' (2005) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 14, 138-147
Elisa Morgera 'Whale Sanctuaries: An Evolving Concept Within the International Whaling Commission' (2004) Ocean Development and International 35, 319-338
Elisa Morgera 'From Stockholm to Johannesburg: From Corporate Responsibility to Corporate Accountability for the Global Protection of the Environment' (2004) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 13, 214-222
Elisa Morgera, Gracia Marin Duran 'Enlargement and EU Development Policy: An Environmental Perspective' (2004) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 13, 152-163
Chapters
Elisa Morgera 'Participation, Balancing of Rights and Interests, and Prior Informed Consent' in John Costenbader (eds) Legal Frameworks for REDD: Design and Implementation at the National Level (IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 77, 2009) 35-56
Elisa Morgera, Annalisa Savaresi 'Ownership of Land, Forest and Carbon' in John Costenbader (eds) Legal Frameworks for REDD: Design and Implementation at the National Level (IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 77, 2009) 15-34
Elisa Morgera 'Human Rights Dimensions of Corporate Environmental Accountability' in Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, and Francesco Francioni (eds) Human Rights, Investment Law and Investor-State Arbitration (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Elisa Morgera 'CSR for the International Protection of the Environment: The impact of UN Policies and Emerging Problems' in M.A. Moreau and F. Francioni (eds) The Pluridisciplinary Dimension of Corporate Social Responsibility (Presses Universitaires d’Aixe-Marseille, 2007) 97-115
Elisa Morgera, Gracia Marin Duran 'Case Note on the WTO India-EC GSP dispute: The Future of Unilateral Trade Incentives linked to Multilateral Environmental Agreements' (2005) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 14, 173-179
Working and Occasional Papers
Elisa Morgera, Kati Kulovesi and Ambra Gobena, 'Case studies on bioenergy policy and law: options for sustainability', FAO Legislative Studies, LS 102 (FAO, 2010)
Elisa Morgera, Maria Teresa Cirelli, 'Legal empowerment of the poor in wildlife management: A study of wildlife legislation in Sub-Saharan Africa', FAO Legal Papers Online (FAO, 2009)
Elisa Morgera, Soledad Aguilar, 'Wildlife legislation and the empowerment of the poor in Latin America', FAO Legal Papers Online (FAO, 2009)
Elisa Morgera, Maria Teresa Cirelli, 'Wildlife law and the legal empowerment of the poor in Sub-Saharan Africa: new case studies', FAO Legal Papers Online (FAO, 2009)
Elisa Morgera 'Participatory Forestry in Central Asia and Caucasus: current legal trends and future perspectives', FAO Legal Papers Online (FAO, 2008)
Elisa Morgera, James Wingard, 'Principles for developing sustainable wildlife management laws', FAO Legal Papers Online (FAO, 2008)
Elisa Morgera, Patricia Quillacq (eds) for the Working Group on Environmental Law, 'Sustainable Development and International Law: The Way Forward', EUI Working Papers Law, LAW 2007/28 (European University Institute, 2007)
Elisa Morgera, Francesco Francioni (eds) for the Working Group on Environmental Law, 'The Future of Environmental Law: International and European Perspectives', EUI Working Papers Law, LAW No. 2006/1 (European University Institute, 2006)
