Hilal Elver

Hilal Elver is a Research Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, where she has been Distinguished Visiting Professor since 2002, and is co-director of the Project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy housed at the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at UCSB. Previously she was the UNEP Chair on Environmental Diplomacy at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in Malta; she has also taught at the University of Ankara, Faculty of Law. Her publications focus on international environmental law and human rights, specifically in relation to women's rights; among her publications are the books Peaceful Uses of International Rivers: Case of Euphrates and Tigris Rivers and The Headscarf Controversy, Secularism and Freedom of Religion.