Dr Bronwyn Lay is the Climate Justice Lead, Federation of Community Legal Centres Victoria. With a background in criminal and family law, she completed her PhD on international land governance and environmental law at the European Graduate School in 2014. She subsequently worked as a legal consultant for international NGO’s and expert organisations on environmental crime, was the Director of the Caux Dialogue on Land and Security in Geneva and, back in Melbourne, worked as Coordinator of Ecological Justice for Jesuit Social Services and the Climate Exchange at RMIT University. She is widely published in a variety of forums on the subject of ecological justice and was trained as a French firefighter (Pompier) for five years.