Dr Giedre Jokubauskaite
- Senior Lecturer (School of Law)
telephone:
01413303377
email:
Giedre.Jokubauskaite@gla.systa-s.com
Biography
Giedre's research examines the legal and governance dimensions of climate and debt justice. She focuses on the local resistance to green transition, including climate finance and carbon offsetting, finanicialised development, and climate adaptation projects.
Since 2025, Giedre is the Principle Investigator on the British Academy-funded research project 'Green Precarity', conducted in partnership with University of Rosario (Colombia), Andean University of Simon Bolivar (Ecuador) and Derechos, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Peru). Giedre is the co-convener of the Climate Law and Justice LLM programme, and she co-leads the Just Transitions research cluster at the School of Law.
Giedre joined the School of Law at the University of Glasgow in September 2018. Prior to this, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Durham Law School. She was a Fellow at the Global Policy Institute (University of Durham), and a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, University of Cambridge. In 2019 Giedre was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Rosario (Botoga, Colombia), and a visiting Teaching Fellow at the University of KIMEP (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Before joining academia in the UK, she worked as a civil society advocate in Lithuania, Ukraine, Cameroon and Germany.
Research interests
Giedre’s most recent research has been on the concept of ‘green precarity’, which is a novel critical lens that highlights how green programmes and initiatives deplete the abilities of structurally vulnerable groups to sustain life. By identifying to what extent and how green capitalism impacts negatively on local communities, green precarity sheds light on new forms of exploitation and dispossession. This research is conducted as part of the British Academy-funded research project 'Green Precarity', which brings together a bilingual (English and Spanish) team of academic and non-academic researchers from law, arts and history, based in Scotland and Latin America. As a Principal Investigator of the project, Giedre oversees the core outputs of the project, and is conducting empirical research for a case study in Scotland.
Giedre has also ongoing research projects on:
- A link between climate and debt, with the focus on the institutional framework of climate finance. She previously worked with civil society organisations to publish a blog series on Indebting a Green Transition, and to develop a joint academia-civil society agenda on this topic. Together with a group of scholars and activits, she is currently editing a handbook on Decolonising Climate Finance.
- Transformative governance and decision-making in adaptation finance. As part of the GALLANT project, Giedre is part of a research team (Work Package 1) that examines the governance of adaptation to flood risk and sea level rise around the River Clyde (Glasgow).
- Legal and governance dimensions of just transition under neoliberalism. As part of the Just Transitions research cluster at the School of Law, Giedre has previously co-authored a paper on the concept of just transition. This research forms the basis for several ongoing collaborations and initiatives that are currently in the pipeline.
Previously (2020-24) Giedre was a Principal Investigator on the AHRC/DFG-funded research project 'The Law of Protracted Conflict: Understanding Humanitarian-Development Divide' (Endless Conflicts), together with Asli Olcay (Co-I) (Glasgow), conducted in partnership with FU Berlin. This project focused on the intersction of development and humanitarian legal regimes, through research and knowledge exchange activities in Colombia and the DRC. This project resulted in an edited collection 'From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace?', published with Oxford University Press (2026).
Publications
2026
Krieger, Heike, Jokubauskaite, Giedre, Ozcelik, Asli 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0845-6593 and Buser, Andreas (Eds.)
(2026)
From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace? The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus and International Law.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198967378
(In Press)
Buser, Andreas, Jokubauskaite, Giedre, Krieger, Heike and Ozcelik, Asli ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0845-6593
(2026)
Conceptualising protracted conflicts and international law.
In: Krieger, Heike, Jokubauskaite, Giedre, Ozcelik, Asli and Buser, Andreas (eds.)
From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace?: The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus and International Law.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198967378
(In Press)
2025
Bendel, Justine and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2025) Environmental impact assessment revisited: discretion, exclusion, and lessons from forest governance. New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law, (Accepted for Publication)
Del Pilar Cortes Nieto, Johanna and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (Eds.) (2025) Law and Critique [Special Issue]. Law and Critique. [Edited Journal] (Accepted for Publication)
Jokubauskaite, Giedre and del Pilar Cortés-Nieto, Johanna (2025) Everyday resistance against green financialised development: an example of Rios Vivos resisting Hidroituango in Colombia. Law and Critique, (Accepted for Publication)
Jokubauskaite, Giedre and del Pilar Cortés-Nieto, Johanna (2025) Law, resistance and 'nice development' in Latin America. Law and Critique, (Accepted for Publication)
Fradera, Kat ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8569-2612, Naylor, Larissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674, Jokubauskaite, Giedre and Hurst, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-076X
(2025)
Briefing note: Scottish National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) policy interpretation, relationship to flood risk, sea level rise and erosion considerations, and use in decision making.
Discussion Paper.
SSRN.
(doi: 10.2139/ssrn.5200302).
Bigger, Patrick, Sibaja, Federico, Jokubauskaite, Giedre and Ferrando, Tomaso (2025) Indebting the Green Transition. Civil Society and Academic Priorities at the Nexus of Sovereign Debt and the Climate Crisis. Documentation. Climate and Community Institute.
Chadwick, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6735-3685, Eslava, Luis and Jokubauskaite, Giedre
(2025)
The new developmental state: freedom, governance, and the history of the South.
In: von Bernstorff, Jochen and Dann, Philipp (eds.)
The Battle for International Law II.
Oxford University Press.
(Accepted for Publication)
2024
Stewart, Calum, MacNeil, Iain ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-4292, Jokubauskaite, Giedre, Pavlou, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0048-0799, Williams, Rebecca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7045-918X, Droubi, Sufyan, Chalaczkiewicz-Ladna, Katarzyna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-3566 and Shapovalova, Daria
(2024)
Situating Just Transition as a distinct legal concept.
SSRN,
2023
Stewart, Calum, Jokubauskaite, Giedre, MacNeil, Iain ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-4292, Chalaczkiewicz-Ladna, Katarzyna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-3566 and Pavlou, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0048-0799
(2023)
Legal Challenges To Just Transitions: Summary Report.
Other.
University of Glasgow.
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2023) Who benefits from mobilising private sector investment for climate transition? [Website]
Ferrando, Tomaso and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2023) Debt and green transition: an introduction. [Website]
Jokubauskaite, Giedre, Buser, Andreas and Terrey, Sophie-Marie (2023) Human Rights-Based Approches to Protracted Conflicts. Documentation. Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security (GCILS), Glasgow, Scotland.
2022
Robbie, Jill ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 and Jokubauskaite, Giedre
(2022)
Carbon Markets, Public Interest and Landownership in Scotland.
Discussion Paper.
Scottish Land Commission.
Jokubauskaite, Giedre and Turner, Catherine (2022) Mediation and Development-related Conflict. Discussion Paper. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London.
Jokubauskaite, Giedre and Rossati, David (2022) A tragedy of juridification in international development finance. Canadian Journal of Development Studies = Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 43(1), pp. 39-58. (doi: 10.1080/02255189.2021.1895090)
Ferrando, Tomaso, Jokubauskaite, Giedre, Rossati, David and De Feyter, Koen (2022) The Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO) as a Sustainable Development Actor. University of Antwerp: Antwerp. ISBN 9789057287404
2021
del Pilar Cortes-Nieto, Johanna and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2021) A counter-hegemonic rule of law? International Journal of Law in Context, 17(SI 1), pp. 128-135. (doi: 10.1017/S1744552321000070)
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2021) Resistance. In: de Feyter, K., Erdem Turkelli, G. and de Moerloose, S. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Law and Development. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781788117968 (Accepted for Publication)
2020
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2020) The concept of affectedness in international development. World Development, 126, 104700. (doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104700)
2019
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2019) The World Bank Environmental and Social Framework in a wider realm of public international law. Leiden Journal of International Law, 32(3), pp. 457-463. (doi: 10.1017/S092215651900027X)
Davitti, Daria, Tan, Celine, Bhatt, Kinnari, de Moerloose, Stéphanie, Türkelli, Gamze Erdem and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2019) Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development: Consultation on Good Practices, Challenges and Areas for Improvement on the Implementation of the Right to Development (RTD) in the area of Financing for Development (FFD). Documentation. New Frontiers in International Development Finance (NeF DeF) Project.
2018
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2018) Tied affectedness? Grassroots resistance and the World Bank. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 3(5-6), pp. 703-724. (doi: 10.1080/23802014.2018.1595125)
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2018) The legal nature of the World Bank safeguards. Verfassung in Recht und Übersee, 51(1), pp. 78-102. (doi: 10.5771/0506-7286-2018-1-78)
2017
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2017) Susan Park, Jonathan R. Strand (eds.), Global Economic Governance and the Development Practices of the Multilateral Development Banks, Routledge, New York 2016, 223 pages, hardcover, $ 129, ISBN 978-1-138-82712-7. Verfassung in Recht und Übersee, 50(2), pp. 188-194. (doi: 10.5771/0506-7286-2017-2-188)[Book Review]
2016
Cotula, Lorenzo and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2016) Land investments, accountability and the law: Lessons from West Africa. Documentation. IIED.
2015
Cotula, Lorenzo, Jokubauskaite, Giedre and Sutz, Philippine (2015) Legal frameworks at the interface between industrial agriculture and ape conservation. In: Rainer, Helga, White, Alison and Lanjouw, Annette (eds.) Industrial Agriculture and Ape Conservation (State of the Apes). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 105-134. ISBN 9781316488959 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781316488959.008)
2014
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2014) Philipp Dann. The Law of Development Cooperation: A Comparative Analysis of the World Bank, the EU and Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 604. $130. ISBN: 9781107020290. [First published in German by Mohr Siebeck in 2012.]. European Journal of International Law, 25(2), pp. 610-616. (doi: 10.1093/ejil/chu040)[Book Review]
Articles
Bendel, Justine and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2025) Environmental impact assessment revisited: discretion, exclusion, and lessons from forest governance. New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law, (Accepted for Publication)
Jokubauskaite, Giedre and del Pilar Cortés-Nieto, Johanna (2025) Everyday resistance against green financialised development: an example of Rios Vivos resisting Hidroituango in Colombia. Law and Critique, (Accepted for Publication)
Jokubauskaite, Giedre and del Pilar Cortés-Nieto, Johanna (2025) Law, resistance and 'nice development' in Latin America. Law and Critique, (Accepted for Publication)
Stewart, Calum, MacNeil, Iain ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-4292, Jokubauskaite, Giedre, Pavlou, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0048-0799, Williams, Rebecca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7045-918X, Droubi, Sufyan, Chalaczkiewicz-Ladna, Katarzyna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-3566 and Shapovalova, Daria
(2024)
Situating Just Transition as a distinct legal concept.
SSRN,
Jokubauskaite, Giedre and Rossati, David (2022) A tragedy of juridification in international development finance. Canadian Journal of Development Studies = Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 43(1), pp. 39-58. (doi: 10.1080/02255189.2021.1895090)
del Pilar Cortes-Nieto, Johanna and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2021) A counter-hegemonic rule of law? International Journal of Law in Context, 17(SI 1), pp. 128-135. (doi: 10.1017/S1744552321000070)
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2020) The concept of affectedness in international development. World Development, 126, 104700. (doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104700)
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2019) The World Bank Environmental and Social Framework in a wider realm of public international law. Leiden Journal of International Law, 32(3), pp. 457-463. (doi: 10.1017/S092215651900027X)
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2018) Tied affectedness? Grassroots resistance and the World Bank. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 3(5-6), pp. 703-724. (doi: 10.1080/23802014.2018.1595125)
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2018) The legal nature of the World Bank safeguards. Verfassung in Recht und Übersee, 51(1), pp. 78-102. (doi: 10.5771/0506-7286-2018-1-78)
Books
Ferrando, Tomaso, Jokubauskaite, Giedre, Rossati, David and De Feyter, Koen (2022) The Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO) as a Sustainable Development Actor. University of Antwerp: Antwerp. ISBN 9789057287404
Book Sections
Buser, Andreas, Jokubauskaite, Giedre, Krieger, Heike and Ozcelik, Asli ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0845-6593
(2026)
Conceptualising protracted conflicts and international law.
In: Krieger, Heike, Jokubauskaite, Giedre, Ozcelik, Asli and Buser, Andreas (eds.)
From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace?: The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus and International Law.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198967378
(In Press)
Chadwick, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6735-3685, Eslava, Luis and Jokubauskaite, Giedre
(2025)
The new developmental state: freedom, governance, and the history of the South.
In: von Bernstorff, Jochen and Dann, Philipp (eds.)
The Battle for International Law II.
Oxford University Press.
(Accepted for Publication)
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2021) Resistance. In: de Feyter, K., Erdem Turkelli, G. and de Moerloose, S. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Law and Development. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781788117968 (Accepted for Publication)
Cotula, Lorenzo, Jokubauskaite, Giedre and Sutz, Philippine (2015) Legal frameworks at the interface between industrial agriculture and ape conservation. In: Rainer, Helga, White, Alison and Lanjouw, Annette (eds.) Industrial Agriculture and Ape Conservation (State of the Apes). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 105-134. ISBN 9781316488959 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781316488959.008)
Book Reviews
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2017) Susan Park, Jonathan R. Strand (eds.), Global Economic Governance and the Development Practices of the Multilateral Development Banks, Routledge, New York 2016, 223 pages, hardcover, $ 129, ISBN 978-1-138-82712-7. Verfassung in Recht und Übersee, 50(2), pp. 188-194. (doi: 10.5771/0506-7286-2017-2-188)[Book Review]
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2014) Philipp Dann. The Law of Development Cooperation: A Comparative Analysis of the World Bank, the EU and Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 604. $130. ISBN: 9781107020290. [First published in German by Mohr Siebeck in 2012.]. European Journal of International Law, 25(2), pp. 610-616. (doi: 10.1093/ejil/chu040)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Krieger, Heike, Jokubauskaite, Giedre, Ozcelik, Asli ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0845-6593 and Buser, Andreas (Eds.)
(2026)
From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace? The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus and International Law.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198967378
(In Press)
Edited Journals
Del Pilar Cortes Nieto, Johanna and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (Eds.) (2025) Law and Critique [Special Issue]. Law and Critique. [Edited Journal] (Accepted for Publication)
Research Reports or Papers
Fradera, Kat ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8569-2612, Naylor, Larissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674, Jokubauskaite, Giedre and Hurst, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-076X
(2025)
Briefing note: Scottish National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) policy interpretation, relationship to flood risk, sea level rise and erosion considerations, and use in decision making.
Discussion Paper.
SSRN.
(doi: 10.2139/ssrn.5200302).
Bigger, Patrick, Sibaja, Federico, Jokubauskaite, Giedre and Ferrando, Tomaso (2025) Indebting the Green Transition. Civil Society and Academic Priorities at the Nexus of Sovereign Debt and the Climate Crisis. Documentation. Climate and Community Institute.
Stewart, Calum, Jokubauskaite, Giedre, MacNeil, Iain ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-4292, Chalaczkiewicz-Ladna, Katarzyna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-3566 and Pavlou, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0048-0799
(2023)
Legal Challenges To Just Transitions: Summary Report.
Other.
University of Glasgow.
Jokubauskaite, Giedre, Buser, Andreas and Terrey, Sophie-Marie (2023) Human Rights-Based Approches to Protracted Conflicts. Documentation. Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security (GCILS), Glasgow, Scotland.
Robbie, Jill ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 and Jokubauskaite, Giedre
(2022)
Carbon Markets, Public Interest and Landownership in Scotland.
Discussion Paper.
Scottish Land Commission.
Jokubauskaite, Giedre and Turner, Catherine (2022) Mediation and Development-related Conflict. Discussion Paper. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London.
Davitti, Daria, Tan, Celine, Bhatt, Kinnari, de Moerloose, Stéphanie, Türkelli, Gamze Erdem and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2019) Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development: Consultation on Good Practices, Challenges and Areas for Improvement on the Implementation of the Right to Development (RTD) in the area of Financing for Development (FFD). Documentation. New Frontiers in International Development Finance (NeF DeF) Project.
Cotula, Lorenzo and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2016) Land investments, accountability and the law: Lessons from West Africa. Documentation. IIED.
Website
Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2023) Who benefits from mobilising private sector investment for climate transition? [Website]
Ferrando, Tomaso and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2023) Debt and green transition: an introduction. [Website]
Grants
British Academy (2025-2027) - P-I on the project 'Green Precarity', in cooperation with University of Rosario, Andrean University Simon Bolivar Ecuador, Derechos y Recursos Naturales. 299 485 GBP.
Scottish Land Commission - Consultant, a study on ‘Carbon Markets, Public Interest and Landownership in Scotland' (with Jill Robbie (Glasgow)). 4920 GBP
11.11.11 (a coalition of NGOs in Belgium) (2020-2021) - Consultant, part of the consortium of researchers preparing a study on the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO), 23 000 EUR
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and DFG (German Research Foundation) (2020-2023) - P-I on the project 'The Law of Protracted Conflict: Understanding Humanitarian-Development Divide', 385 000 GBP (UK part)
Glasgow Unviersity Knowledge Exchange Fund (GKE) (2018-2019) - grant to support knowledge exchange workshop on the role of mediation in development finance, 6500 GBP
Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Scheme (2017-2018) – grant to support the dissemination of my doctoral research findings, 1000 GBP
Durham University School of Law Research and Internationalisation Fund and Global Policy Institute Research Fund (2017) – grant to support the publication of a special issue on the World Bank safeguards (collaborative workshop) 4500 GBP
NYU Law School, Global Administrative Law project (2014) – grant to support participation in GAL Viterbo Seminar X, 500 GBP
Edinburgh Law School Community Scheme (2013) – study grant, 2000 GBP
Baltic-American Partnership Fund (Soros Foundation), ‘NGO legal framework in Lithuania: issues and roadmap for improvement’ (2006-2008) – research grant, 80 000 USD
Supervision
I would be interested in the doctoral research projects that explore the theoretical underpinnings of international and/or transnational law; local resistance strategies to global governance; legal strategies of resistance against development, climate finance and moderinisation; the negotiation, regulation and implementation of international agreements (especially investor-state contracts); climate finance (including 'blue' finance) and also other topics that engage with relationship between environment, development and investment from a legal perspective. At the moment my capacity to accept new PhD proposals is very limited, but I'd be eager to engage with you and in some instances might be able to give some feedback on the promising research ideas.
- Muthusamy, Kogilambigai
Pore Space Ownership and Regulatory Challenges in the Protection of Marine Environment in Geological Carbon Sequestration in Malaysia's Offshore Sites: A Comparative Analysis with the United Kingdom - Xu, Ying
Law, Land, and Equity: Exploring Renewable Energy Transition within China's Developmental Justice Framework
Ebiere Japhet, ‘ECOWAS renewable energy development legal and policy framework: analysing the impact of regional integration of energy transition and sustainable development’ (completed in 2026)
Susanne Stuehlinger, ‘Rights in the era of ‘green’ market expansion: articulating radical demands’ (completed in 2025)
Calum Stewart ‘Climate Emergency and Landownership in Scotland’ (completed in 2025)
Onthatile Moeti, 'The Impact of the Modern Development Agenda on the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Botswana: The Case of the San' (completed in 2023)
Sathien Rungthongkhamkul, 'Transnational Business and Human Rights Disputes. A court-centric framework of analysis’ (completed in 2024)
Xi Wang, 'The Improvement of the ISDS System from the Perspective of Foreign Investment Transition Countries: Analysis Based on the China’s Implementation of the “The Belt and Road Initiative”' (completed in 2023)
Teaching
Current:
- Law and Sustainability (LLB)
- Law and International Development (LLM)
- Climate Change Law and Governance (LLM)
- Advanced International Law (LLB)
Previous:
- Environmental Law (LLB)
- Globalisation, Justice and Human Rights (LLB)
- UN Law (LLB and LLM)
- Public International Law (LLB)
- Fundamentals of International Law (MSc)
Additional information
Together with Dr Rebecca Williams and in cooperation with the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland, Giedre is convening the Glasgow Environmental Justice Clinic at the School of Law.
