BCL (UCD), LLM (Public Interest Law & Policy UCLA), PhD (TCD)

Dr Maria Antonieta Nestor (Antoinette Nestor) is an academic lawyer with a background in Community Economic Development Law and Policy, Public Interest Law and Climate Change Law. She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin specialising in public interest law, access to justice and community economic development, an LLM from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA David J Epstein Programme in Public Interest Law & Policy), and Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from University College Dublin. She is also a trained legal interpreter and translator (Spanish/English) and has a diploma in journalism.

She is a Centre Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Property Law (CCPL), Associate Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Secretariat member at the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI), member of IUCN-WCEL (World Commission on Environmental Law), Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (RSA) and Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).

She is the Director of Studies in Land Economy at Girton College, Affiliated Lecturer at the Dept of Land Economy and Faculty Advisor for the Cambridge Pro-Bono Project (CPP), University of Cambridge.

She is also a member of the Cambridge City Council first elected to office in May 2023.