Rate My Professor Elena Aydos

Dr. Elena Aydos serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Newcastle Law School within the School of Law and Justice at the University of Newcastle, Australia. A Brazilian-trained lawyer, she holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Sydney, a Master of Finance Law in Economics and Taxation Law and a Master of Public Law from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, and a Master of Philosophy from Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. Her career history encompasses positions as Research Assistant at Sydney Law School from 2011 to 2012, Teaching Assistant at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina from 2008 to 2009, and Solicitor at Perrone, Warth and Advogados Associados in Brazil from 2004 to 2007. Aydos specializes in climate change law, comprising 50 percent of her fields of research, alongside environmental law at 30 percent and public international law at 20 percent. Her academic interests include carbon markets, climate action, climate justice, emissions trading schemes, and sustainable development.

Aydos has received notable awards, including the University of Newcastle Excellence Awards from the Office of the Vice-Chancellor in 2019, the BOLD Award for Innovation in Course Design from the Centre for Teaching and Learning in 2019, Faculty of Business and Law Excellence in Teaching for an Early Career Teacher in 2017, Best Written Paper Prize from Sydney Law School in 2012, and 1 Premio Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (Best Written Paper Prize, Masters Category) from Law for a Green Planet Institute in 2010. She also completed Climate Reality Leadership Training with Al Gore in 2014. Her major publications feature the co-authored book Carbon Markets Around the Globe: Sustainability and Political Feasibility (2021) with Sven Rudolph; Paying the Carbon Price: The Subsidisation of Heavy Polluters under Emissions Trading Schemes (2017); chapters such as Reforming the EU ETS: towards a more sustainable revenue recycling (2024), Beyond Thunderdome? The prospects of federal greenhouse gas cap-and-trade in Australia (2018), and Emissions Trading Schemes and the WTO (2021); and journal articles including Brazil: Brazil’s New Emissions Trading System: Design and Comparative Insights (Carbon and Climate Law Review, 2025), Reducing Emissions in the Land Sector: A Case Study of Australia (Carbon and Climate Law Review, 2021), and Rocky Hill: A Legal Breakthrough in the Consideration of Climate Change and Social Impacts of Coal Mines (Carbon and Climate Law Review, 2020).