Hilal ELVER

Hilal Elver is the co-director of the Climate Change, Democracy and Human Security project at the UC Santa Barbara. She is a professor of international law, specialized on human rights and environmental law. She taught between 2003 to 2013 at UCSB, and since 2015 she became a Distinguished Global Fellow at Resnick Food Law and Policy Center at the UCLA Law School, teaching courses on Right to Food and Global Food Justice. From May 2014 to May 2020, Elver served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. She is currently serving as a member of the Steering Committee of the High-Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the United Nations World Committee of Food Security (CFS), and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the UN Food Systems Hub. She taught and maintained several affiliations with academic institutions worldwide. Her book on Peaceful Uses of International Rivers: The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers Basin, was published in 2002; Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion was published in 2012 by the Oxford University Press, and her co-edited book with Paul Wapner Reimagining Climate Change was published in 2016. Currently she is working on a manuscript titled Right to Food in Times of Starvation and Famine. Her Select publications, UN reports, and some articles can be found on herwebsite hilalelver.org.