Damien Short is a professor of human rights and environmental justice at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London.
[1] Short is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Human Rights and a member of the International Network of Genocide Scholars.
[2][3] He is co-director of the Human Rights Consortium and the Environmental Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study.
[3] He is a judge on the International Rights of Nature Tribunal, a project of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.
[4] Books published by Short include Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia (2008) and Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide (2016).