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Elena Aydos

Senior Lecturer at The University of Newcastle, Australia

The University of Newcastle, Australia

About me

Dr. Elena Aydos is a Brazilian trained lawyer and a Lecturer at the Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle (UON). Dr. Aydos holds a PhD from the University of Sydney in cotutelle with Tilburg University, The Netherlands; an MPhil in Environmental Law from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil; and postgraduate degrees in Public Law and Taxation Law from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is the Program Convener for the Master of Environmental Law at the Newcastle Law School. Dr. Elena Aydos has publications in Portuguese and English in the area of climate change law and policy. The culmination of her research to date is her book ‘Paying the Carbon Price’ (Edward Elgar, 2017). ‘Paying the Carbon Price’ is an important new addition to the prestigious “New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series”. Dr. Aydos has ongoing research collaborations with Associate Professor Sven Rudolph, from the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University.