Dr Linda Mensah

Dr Linda Mensah is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Stirling. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy(FHEA) and serves as Director of the LLM Environmental Law and Climate Justice Programme. Prior to joining Stirling, Dr Mensah taught Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where she also completed her PhD under the Strathclyde Excellence Awards.

Dr Mensah obtained her LLM (with Distinction) in International Law and Sustainable Development from the University of Strathclyde as a Chevening Scholar. She is a qualified barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana and was the recipient of the 2011 John Mensah Sarbah Memorial Award for Best Graduating Law Student from the Ghana School of Law.

Dr Mensah has over a decade of experience in corporate litigation, working as in-house counsel in higher education and working with Ghana's Legal Aid Scheme(now Legal Aid Commission) in several pro bono human rights cases.

Her research interests include human rights and the environment, resource extractivism, environmental rule of law, biodiversity conservation and climate justice. She approaches these through critical and interdisciplinary frameworks such as law and history, African Indigenous Knowledges, decolonial feminist legal methods, critical legal pluralisms and African feminisms.