Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez
Biography
Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez is a brazilian postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Humanities at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), under the supervision of Dr. Ivo Wallimann-Heimer, with funding from the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship. Her current research examines the place of nonhuman animals within climate justice and policy, deepening philosophical and legal reflections that aim to provide a foundation for future transformations in law and environmental ethics.
She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, where she also completed a postdoctoral research project titled “Human Rights, Climate Emergency, and Health: The Framework of Socioenvironmental Injustice that Perpetuates Inequality and the Fight Against Socioenvironmental Rights Violations.”
She was a visiting scholar at the Rachel Carson Center (LMU - München) from march to may 2025 with a Brazilian scholarship.
She is also a member of the Speak4Nature consortium, which focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to ecological justice.
Her research areas include environmental law, human rights, animal law, international law and animal and climate ethics.