Brief Bio

Brad Jessup (he/him/they) is a human geographer and an environmental and planning lawyer whose research offers global, national, comparative and local perspectives. Brad’s research and teaching cross disciplines in the tradition of legal geography and draw on political theories, expert knowledge of environmental legal processes, and case study examples of law in society. Brad is especially interested in the law and regulation of place, the human and environmental experience of harm, and the role of private and public law, lawyers, society and policy in responding to risk and threats of harm.

With Professor Kim Rubenstein, Brad is the editor of Environmental Discourses in Public and International Law, which brings together international legal and humanities scholars to analyse the dominant ways of knowing, constructing and presenting information about global environmental ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’ and the law. Brad is a member of the editorial board of the Torts Law Journal.

Brad has been a visiting scholar with Oxford University’s Faculty of Law and Wolfson College, with the Faculty of Laws at University College London, and at the University of California, Berkeley. Brad’s academic career has included time at Melbourne Law School and at the Australian National University, where Brad completed his award winning PhD on the topic of environmental justice.

Brad is admitted to practise law. He has worked in commercial legal practice at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer in the 2000s and 2020s.

Courses taught at CTLS

• Comparative Renewable Energy Law and Policy (Spring 2026)
• Transnational Gender and Environmental Justice (Spring 2026)