Professor Raphael Heffron joins University of the West Indies
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Professor Raphael Heffron
Professor Raphael Heffron has been named the new dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies St. Augustine in Trinidad & Tobago.
Professor Heffron was formerly professor for global energy law & sustainability at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy at the University of Dundee.
He is also Jean Monnet professor in the Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy awarded by the European Commission (2019-2022). In 2020, he was also appointed as senior counsel at Janson law firm in Brussels (Belgium).
His work all has a principal focus on achieving a just transition to a low-carbon economy and combines a mix of energy law, policy, and economics.
He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (MPhil-Darwin, PhD-Trinity Hall), the University of Oxford (Christ Church-MSc), the University of St Andrews (MLitt) and Trinity College Dublin (BA, MA). He is also a qualified barrister and was called to the Irish bar in July 2007.