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Anna Leah Tabios Hillebrecht is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty
of Law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). She is
supervised by Prof. Dr. Jens Kersten, Professor doe Public Law and
Administrative Sciences. Her doctoral dissertation, which she had
deposited last May 2016, principally weaves intergenerational
equity, risks, and nuclear disasters together. Therein she also writes
about modern developments in environmental law, including the
recognition of Rights of Nature in countries such as Bolivia and
Ecuador. She has been a member of the Rachel Carson Center’s
Environment and Society doctoral program since April 2013 and
served as the doctoral representative from 2014 to 2015.
Prior to her pursuing her doctoral degree, Anna Leah completed a
Bachelor of Arts in English studies, majoring in language, at the
University of the Philippines. After her graduation in 2005, she
studied law at the Ateneo de Manila University Law School and
wrote a thesis on asset protection trusts. She earned her Juris
Doctor degree in 2009. The following year she passed the Philippine
bar examinations and worked as a lawyer, primarily in the fields of
administrative, election, civil, and corporate law. She was counsel
to various stakeholders, including but not limited to indigenous
cultural communities and natural resource corporations.
In late 2011, Anna Leah proceeded to Japan for further studies as a
Japanese Government (MEXT) scholar, graduating with a Master of
Laws (LLM) degree from Kyushu University in Japan a year
thereafter. For her LLM thesis, she researched on intergenerational
equity in environmental law. In the same year, she received her
European Union Graduate Diploma from the European Union
Institute in Japan. After completing her degrees in Japan, she
lectured on human rights and world politics, the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations, and gender studies, as well as a postgraduate
class
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the
United
Nations
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international organisations, at the Paññāsāstra University in Phnom
Penh, Cambodia.
She has been a scholar of the Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst (DAAD) Graduate Studies Scholarship Program
from June 2013 to the present. In August 2015, she completed her
Grundzüge des deutschen Rechts Zertifikat (Certificate on the
Fundamentals of German Law) at the LMU and presently lectures on
corporate crimes at the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
(University of Applied Sciences in Ingolstadt). An emphasis in her
lectures includes environmental corporate crimes and their
corresponding liability. Her research interests also include state law
and the right to information, trusts, and space law.