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Beth Goldblatt is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia and a Visiting Professor in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is an international expert on social and economic rights and equality and non-discrimination law. With colleagues, Beth established the UTS Faculty of Law’s large and active Feminist Legal Research Group and she teaches ‘Gender and the Law’. She is the inaugural co-chair of the Faculty’s Equity and Diversity Group and sits on the UTS Diversity and Inclusion Implementation Committee. Beth is a member of the Australian Discrimination Law Experts Group. Her work covers many aspects of equality with a recent focus on climate change, its impact on inequality, and the role of law in contributing to climate justice.

Dr Cristy Clark is an academic at the University of Canberra Law School, Australia. She is an expert on the human right to water. Her research focuses on the intersection of human rights, neoliberalism, and the environment, and she is the co-author of The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice (2022).

Dan Shapiro has been a practicing trial lawyer and business litigator since 1982. Much of his career has been spent litigating class actions, where he helped to develop and refine the applicable law in the trial and appellate courts. He has been a frequent speaker and author on class actions and class action reform. Dan is a graduate of The University of Chicago Law School and of the University of Illinois where he earned All University Honors and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

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